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- From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C and UNIX invented as hoax
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:40:51 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Austria AG
- Message-ID: <4gv8m3$nba@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at>
- References: <1996Feb19.140136.1@willow> <4gfsl6INNiah@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4gksea$eiv@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> <4gnsi4INN1ci@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- : In article <4gksea$eiv@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at>,
- : Marino Ladavac <ladavac@aut.alcatel.at> wrote:
- : >I don't know about UNIX, but C is curable (well, sort-of.) Expressiveness
- : >and readability of Perl wins hands-down (and yes, I actually do mean it.)
-
- : Perl is not a replacement for C. Isn't that obvious? Where are the smiley
- : faces to indicate you are joking?
-
- As far as smiley faces are concerned, they were one line below (I though
- that "tongue in cheek" is a pretty common English idiom for humorous
- content).
-
- However, I was only half-way joking; for all *my* practical purposes,
- Perl has replaced C. This, of course, may not be the case for you.
-
- /Alby
-
- P.S. One may argue that Perl is not fast enough. Then again, neither is C.
- P.P.S. Anti-foreword, OTOH, was inspired :)
-