In article <7xwscx6zfo....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> basically I think C is evil. C is not evil. It's a tool. Would you call a hammer evil because it's not very good at driving screws? C is a very good tool for doing the kind of thing it was designed for, which is highly efficient, low-level, portable programming. The fact that C has been used to write all sorts of large-scale applications doesn't mean that it's good at that kind of stuff. It just means that all the alternatives suck more than it does for that kind of stuff. If you want evil, look at C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
