Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:59:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 2 - C is The Language Of Unix, Unix is Great, We Use Unix, there-
> fore We Write In C. (The fact that for a long time, cc came as
> part of Unix played a part in this. Why spend Big Bucks for a
> Fortran or COBOL compiler, when C is "free as in beer"?)
Wouldn't it make more sense and sound cooler to say "free as in C" then?
> 3 - "I learned C in college, and C lets me write in 1 long line
> that which takes 3 easy-to-read lines in Fortran. Thus, C is great,
> and all other languages suck!". Fortunately, this attitude is also
> diminishing. Unfortunately, nowadays "s/C /Perl /".
Wouldn't it be easier to read if you wrote it s/C/Perl/ ?
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