Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:59:57PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake Steve Lamb (grey@dmiyu.org):
> > *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.
Which one's that, then?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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