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Re: Which programming Language
What ever mail client you are using is mangling threading and "reply levels". 
On 02/10/2009 09:38 AM, owens@netptc.net wrote:



---- Original Message ----
From: ron.l.johnson@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Which programming  Language
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:33:14 -0600


On 02/09/2009 09:15 PM, Chris Jones wrote:

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:05:49PM EST, Micha Feigin wrote:

[..]



The C Programming Language - A language which combines the
flexibility and power of assembly language with the readability
and maintainablity of assembly language.

Funniest quote in a long time ..

>>

Except such a person has never used VAX MACRO before.

>

Is this a misquote??


Nope.


                     Readability and maintainability of "assembly"
language.
Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with assembly programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN and COBOL instructions), and the (macro, natch) assembler is designed with HLL features. 

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