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Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors

From Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors
Date 2020-01-04 14:52 -0800
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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
[...]
> PS. I note that the "an improvement on most of its successors" subject
>     line is Jacob's; the article doesn't speak about C as the best
>     language in general, or about successors.

And it's based on a quotation from C.A.R. Hoare about Algol 60:

    Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an
    improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its
    successors.

(jacob might assume I'm criticizing his adaptation of Hoare's
quotation.  I'm not.)

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C is an improvement on most of its successors jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-01-04 17:36 +0100
  Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors "A. K." <minforth@arcor.de> - 2020-01-04 13:32 -0800
    Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-01-04 22:34 +0000
      Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-01-04 14:52 -0800
      Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-01-05 00:16 +0100
        Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2020-01-06 04:43 -0800
    Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-01-05 00:17 +0100
  Re: C is an improvement on most of its successors chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-06 05:44 -0800

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