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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: EASY C
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.161225.13194@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <faivre.716116245@cst02> <MJN.92Sep11004159@pseudo.uucp> <faivre.716417831@cst02>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:12:25 GMT
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- In <faivre.716417831@cst02> faivre@cst02.segin.com (Denis Faivre) writes:
-
- >mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt) writes:
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- >>If you want Pascal, you know where to find it.
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- >The goal isn't to change to another language, but to make C easier to learn,
- >easier to read and easier to debug for programmers used to deal with COBOL.
-
- Except that it doesn't do that, since once they get done abusing the
- preprocessor, the result is no longer C. They are using some other
- language entirely. The person using 'Easy C' doesn't know how to read
- or write C. And as for the person who inherits their code to
- maintain, they should be given a license to hunt down the original
- author and do something massive and permanent to them. Something slow
- and lingering comes to mind.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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