On Jan 15, 11:13 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > 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
Hammers are not evil, they have no logic, interpreters and compilers are not evil either -- you and i control there every move. The hammer will go exactly where you guide it to -- if that happens to be you thumb...?? Python does exactly what it's told, if you tell Python to smash your thumb, Python will gladly comply :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
