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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



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.

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