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From: [e-mail] (Oscar Scholten)
Subject: Re: Portability of code & skills (Beware of "C" Hackers etc)
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: > Aside from the historical argument, could another reason be that people
: > love power and permissive languages such as C give such power?

: No curried functions, function constructors, lazy evaluation, or generic
: data and function types.  No assertions, exceptions, concurrency, or
: parallelism.  No built in string, vector, matrix, or complex operations.
: No garbage collection.  No embedded SQL.  No opaque types or language
: construct for naming a group of related operations.  Think of any powerful
: construct you like from any language and you will find it NOT in C (or
: at least not during the period C was catching on).

I think that power ment the ability to do anything with any part of your
machine. Not the ability to use some high-level concepts as SQL.
Do note that one can always write something like that for him/herself, or
use some third party library.
Besides, languages that support the things you mentioned usually do not allow
you to do all the typical c/c++ things, like your own memory management etc.

Oscar
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