The C programming language

At 06:37 PM 3/10/00 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote: I was in college in an unfortunate time in the early 80s when you were expected to be able to program in C to produce course work, yet there were no courses that taught C. They "taught" C via volunteers outside of class time out of sheer necessity. It was useless. I agree completely - after having my brain warped by years of BASIC and a smattering of Pascal, thinking of C as a fancy macro assembler was the fastest way to learn, read and program in C. You might enjoy reading my copy of "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan, one of the creators of C, at http://www.threedee.com/jcm/psystem/whypascal.html . These religious wars tend to forget about the talents of the programmer. I've ported programs from language to language, and there are some people who can't write their way out of a paper bag. Well-written Pascal code can port quite quickly to C or Java, and vice-versa. In most languages, you're free to write memory leaks, spaghetti control structures, incomprehensible data structures, undocumented file formats, bizarre and obtuse methods of twiddling bits or operating system records, etc. - John Jefferson Computer Museum http://www.threedee.com/jcm/