[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-02-14, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-02-14, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Some would say that C doesn't have any sense of style at all.
>>
>> It is surely no coincidence that the rise in the popularity of C came in the
>> same timeframe as that of the term "computer nerd" :-)
>>
>
> Unfortunately, the rise of C is kind of a self-fulfilling feedback loop
> as, given that it's available on such a wide range of platforms (and may
> even be the only viable higher level[*] language option), means that more
                                                        ^^^
Sigh. Insert "in some environments" here. I didn't mean to imply that C
might be the only viable higher level language in general. :-)

> and more people use it and hence it becomes yet more popular.
>

[snip]

Simon.

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