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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 06:45:59 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <BYERLY_J.96Feb7170158@srm9.motsat.sat.mot.com> <4fc0ff$ipd@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
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- In article <4fc0ff$ipd@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>,
- Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
- >I taught C for a while, so I got to see a lot of C textbooks.
- >There are a few that get the language right: K&RII and H&S4 and P&B.
- >But those are reference manuals for the language, not textbooks about
- >programming in it.
-
- I would argue that K&R is a workable textbook.
-
- Apart from that, I must admit, C has attracted some of the most stunningly
- incompetent programmers I've ever heard of to write its books.
-
- I am amazed people are bothering to respond to the argument by popularity;
- right now, English is supported by more than a billion distinct platforms,
- all blindingly fast. It's cheap, books on it or illustrating how to use it
- are widely available, and yet, no one reccommends using it for software
- engineering. :) (Probably too much implementation defined behavior.)
-
- C is a great language, but it's hardly the *only* great language. I have
- not yet found gnat binaries for my home box, but when I do, I'll probably
- at least start on learning it. Only fools stick exclusively to one
- language.
-
- -s
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