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- From: genew@mindlink.bc.ca (Gene Wirchenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C and UNIX invented as hoax
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:47:49 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- ferriom@woods.uml.edu wrote:
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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
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- Yup! Some people will believe anything.
- In order to help them in icon design, Microsoft recently bought
- the Roman Catholic Church. Expect an RCC compiler RSN. <G>
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- Sincerely,
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- Gene Wirchenko
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- C Pronunciation Guide:
- y=x++; "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon"
- x=x++; "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon"
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