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From: Andrew T. Finnell <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
Subject: ! Read me and State your opinion.
Date: 9 Apr 1996 20:19:38 GMT
Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736)
Message-ID: <4kegoq$f2d$[e-mail]>

    Hello all fellow C/C++ programmers.

    I'd like your opinion on a subject. I recently had a
argument with one of my friends and he says that C sucks and
people shouldn't be programming in it and it's more of a hassel to
program in. He also says that some better language will come out,
not a add on like C to C++. I think he's full of it so does my
dad. Yes I'm only 15. I am a pretty good programmer if I do say so
myself. But my friend says it's to hard to learn and doesn't serve
the purpose it's supposed too. As in the transportable code. He
says there's not enough standard librarys as in Text output and
graphics. I told him that that's why it is called a low-level
language. Because the programmer has to make most of the libraries
himself.
    I think that C/C++ won't be replace but "upgraded". I
don't know how I can explain to him that C is the language to make
programs. Also my friends brother is the main reason I wrote this.
He doesn't want to learn C because he thinks it will be replaced
and he'll just have to learn a new language.
    Now I think C is awesome and most versitle. I love
interrupt changing :-) which I don't think you can do in any other
language except of course Assembly :-) but that doesn't count.
    I'd like to know what the other programming people think
about this and what they think will happen with programming and a
way to convince my friend that C is the way.

--
Andrew