On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 15:59, Deryk Barker wrote: > 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.
Another goal of C was to make it look like PDP-11 assembly. Which is why C is sometimes called a 2.5GL language, to distinguish it from 3GLs like, oh, every other procedural language except Assembly (which is 2GL, after all). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" Johnny Bravo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
