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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:18:08 +1000
Subject: Re: Python handles globals badly.
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:00:22 +1000, Chris Angelico writes:
>>To get started, you need some other sort of kick.
>
> Having Brian Kernighan write a really nice book about you, helps a lot.

It kinda does. And of course, it also helps to have a time machine, so
you can launch your language when there are less languages around.
Today, you compete for attention with myriad languages that simply
didn't exist when C was introduced to an unsuspecting world.

ChrisA