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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



Thus spake Steve Lamb (grey@dmiyu.org):

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:21:05 -0700
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> > It's relatively easy to learn, plus everybody else in the unix world
> > uses C.  It's portable.  It helps to know your history:  C was created
> > to write unix to begin with.
> 
>     *cough, spit*  I was able to grasp Turbo Pascal far before C.  I had no
> problems with Perl.  Hell, I learned Python in a week.  C..  C I still poke at
> with a 2' stick in the eye and hope it goes away and I've taken several
> classes in C and have tried to work with it several times over the years.

Nor does it help that the best-selling C book ever is, ahem,
less-than-superbly-written. 

Incidentally Paul, C was derived from B (derived from BCPL) in order
to *re*write Unix, which was originally written in assembler.

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