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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