If C is so evil why is it so successful?

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Alfred M. Szmidt

    > No even the following program:
    >   int main (void) { return 0; }
    > is guaranteed to work

I'm missing something: why not?

	Noel

PS: There probably is something to the sports car analogy, but I'm not going
to take a position on that one! :-) Interesting side-question though: is
assembler more or less like a sports car than C? :-)