Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > C is not evil. It's a tool. Would you call a hammer evil because it's not > very good at driving screws?
I would call a hammer evil if it were built in a way that made it unnecessarily likely to hit your thumb. > 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. I don't think so: http://www.adaic.org/whyada/ada-vs-c/cada_art.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
