Thus spake Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:21:05 -0700 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Nor does it help that the best-selling C book ever is, ahem, less-than-superbly-written. Incidentally Paul, C was derived from B (derived from BCPL) in order to *re*write Unix, which was originally written in assembler. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
