Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes:

>     It's called maintainability.  Who says *you* are going to be the next
> person to touch the code?  

We try to hire people with a basic knowledge of the language.

I can see your concern with the fifteen different ways perl can
represent ifs (at least the language doesn't have COME FROM) but this
is a bit excessive?  Do you also wrap if bodies in a few extra layers
of parentheses, in case someone comes along and wants to add a || and
forgets to?  

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