-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages > seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant > language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question. Why, > exactly, is C so popular?
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. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TJQhUzgNqloQMwcRAiQaAJ4+mZPffMTDcfyu9esw9PXhIjRSeACggh88 F5CVDr2suZmdIXECUmWwMX4= =XOXV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
