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- From: ferriom@woods.uml.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: C and UNIX invented as hoax
- Date: 17 Feb 96 18:16:43 -0500
- Organization: University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Message-ID: <1996Feb17.181643.1@willow>
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- Yes, it's true!
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- If what I've read is correct, then it appears that the 'C' programming
- language maybe in some trouble: recently the inventors of the language
- revealed at a UNIX software development forum that 'C' was originally
- invented as a parody of Pascal, and deliberately made difficult to understand
- so that maybe it could be sold to the Soviet Union and set their Computer
- Science back 20 years. Furthermore, because of the unreadability of 'C', its
- inventors also confessed that they never use it themselves. These recent
- revelations proved to be so disturbing, that Borland International immediately
- promised to concentrate all further development on more user-friendly
- programming languages such as Pascal, and halt all further development of 'C'.
- (I'm not making this up -- you'll find all of the above in THE UNIX HATERS
- HANDBOOK, by Garfinkel, et. al., IDG Books Worldwide, 1994, Appendix B).
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- I guess this only confirms what most of us have always suspected...
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- -- MICHAEL FERRIO
-