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- From: cspw@cs.ru.ac.za (Peter Wentworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: A TERRIBLE HOAX = C and Unix lang.!!!!!!!!!
- Date: 1 Jan 96 09:06:07 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Rhodes University
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- In <4c1ddp$4f9@guild.ipgnet.com> ipg@ipgnet.com (RPM) writes:
-
-
- What astute insight! One day I hope you'll see the real
- language hoax that has been perpetutuated by people like
- yourself: the real hoax is the idea that languages ought
- to be evaluated in the small: "what looping structures does
- it have", etc... This thinking has led us into a
- "not-invented-here" mindset for evaluating languages. We
- don't care if a new language can only run on some obscure
- brand of machine, and it cannot interface to X, or reuse the
- bulk of the world's software, or if it programs cannot be tailored
- for different architectures.
-
- What C and Unix gave us, and taught
- us, was far more valuable than the lessons of the Algol-60s and all
- its derviatives. I'm not saying there were no valuable lessons
- there, but nothing to date has come anywhere close to what C and
- C++ have achieved. And the reason for these languages dominating
- is not some silly hoax mistake. They have better survival and
- cooperation characteristics than their opposition.
-
-
-
- >C language is a Hoax!
-
- >Both the C and Unix languages were created as an April fools prank which has
- >been kept alive for 2 decades. The creators couldn't believe people would be
- >so stupid as to actually use them. There were plans to sell them to the
- >Russians to set them back 20 years. Unbelievable?
-
- >Read at: http//www.ipgnet.com/columns.htm#article4
-
- >RPM
-
- >This is not a spam. This is information to help programmers throughout the
- >world. Programmers need to unite to create integrity in the programming
- >community. Too many programmers are underpaid. Too many are overworked Too
- >many aren't certified.
- >
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- EP Wentworth - Dept. of Comp. Sci. - Rhodes University - Grahamstown - RSA.
- cspw@cs.ru.ac.za Knuth's Caveat: "While I have informally proved it,
- fax: +27 461 311915 I haven't tested it much."
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