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Re: origins of C

From Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: origins of C
Date 2020-12-17 13:02 +0000
Organization Department of Redundancy Department
Message-ID <i4137rF90kjU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <rr8qmi$cis$1@dont-email.me> <584763190.629680980.014917.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <-dydnUl1IctxGUTCnZ2dnUU7-dudnZ2d@giganews.com> <1442842010.629821084.935966.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <rrdbai$ddr$1@newsreader4.netcologne.de>

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On 2020-12-16, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
>
> It's interesting to read what Kernighan has to say about C++ -
> he's a very polite guy, but he writes in his memoir that he is
> "barely literate in [C++]".  Small wonder.

He also defends at least early C++, saying that Stroustrup had good
reasons for the choices he made. He doesn't say anything like that about
what's happened since, though...

Niklas
-- 
Just because you *can* write a Java Virtual Machine in INTERCAL, that
doesn't mean you *should*.
 -- David Cameron Staples makes the Understatement of the Year in asr

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                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-20 18:40 +0000
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-20 14:03 -0500
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-20 18:09 -0500
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                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-22 10:39 -0700
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                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-12-21 18:10 +0000
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 13:23 -0500
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 13:37 -0500
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-12-22 18:59 +0000
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-22 14:23 -0500
                Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-12-21 19:31 +0000
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