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Simon Coulter wrote:
. . .
Ah, but nothing about C is cool--it's an appalling language for almost
any task.
. . .
I wouldn't go that far. C works extremely well for some things. I used
it for the server-side communication layers in our client-server
products (all of which predate the "Toolbox" by well over a year), and
for the scanners called by a couple of parsers I wrote in RPG. And in a
number of other places.
But I would say that it's a language that has far too many "true
believers" who consider it a panacea. And unfortunately, Java's biggest
shortcoming is that it was developed by a bunch of C jocks. Although it
could have been worse; they could have gone to great lengths to keep the
"null-terminated string" bovine scat intact.
Of course, this is the RPG list. We don't have any of that "one language
is a panacea" bovine scat here, do we? ;-P
--
JHHL
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