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kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) writes:

> There is this saying "You can write C in any language", [...]

I don't remember hearing that saying before, but it is way off
the mark.  How C deals with indexing and pointer arithmetic
causes almost every other language to be a poor venue for
writing C.