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Re: Quick Question

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Quick Question
Date 2015-08-27 09:26 -0700
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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> [...]
>> Oh, I wasn't blaming him. My response was not to him, but to James. And 
>> yes, of course it's Microsoft's fault. But it's partly Dennis Ritchie's 
>> fault. "C" is the worst thing about C. If he'd called it "dritchie" or 
>> "dmrlang" or "flodge", that would have been far better. Those are all 
>> terrible names for programming languages, but they're all better than "C".
>
> I'm tempted to invent a language, intermediate between BCPL and B, and
> call it A.  (And yes, there is a language, intended to be a successor to
> C, called D.)

Here's another really bad idea: B++, an object-oriented language built
on top of B.  All the complexity of C++, none of the type-safety of C.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Quick Question dougmmika@gmail.com - 2015-08-25 19:22 -0700
  Re: Quick Question "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 19:24 -0700
  Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-25 23:00 -0400
    Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 07:19 +0100
      Re: Quick Question glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-08-26 07:55 +0000
        Re: Quick Question "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-26 06:04 -0500
          Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 12:58 +0100
            Re: Quick Question "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 05:20 -0700
          Re: Quick Question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:17 +0100
            Re: Quick Question "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-26 08:15 -0500
          Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 08:36 -0700
      Re: Quick Question David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-26 13:09 +0200
        Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:01 +0100
          Re: Quick Question David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-26 14:30 +0200
          Re: Quick Question Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> - 2015-08-26 09:14 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:40 -0400
          Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 10:23 -0400
          Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 08:39 -0700
            Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:43 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-27 09:26 -0700
          Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:39 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-26 18:46 +0100
            Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 14:08 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 22:41 -0700
              Re: Quick Question Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-27 08:40 -0600
                Re: Quick Question Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:49 -0700
                Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-27 14:28 -0700
        Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 10:24 -0400

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