If C is so evil why is it so successful?

[Norman Jaffe]

Assembler is a sports car kit. 

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Subject: Re: If C is so evil why is it so successful? 

> 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? :-)