If C is so evil why is it so successful?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Apr 13 07:04:22 CDT 2017


    > From: Rod Smallwood

    > All computer computer languages are only as good or bad as the person
    > using them.

True words. I'd rather work on a program written in assembly language,
done by a _really good_ programmer, than a program written in _anything_,
done by a bad one. (My classic example: that MOS OS done by Jim Mathis
in PDP-11 assembler.)

	Noel


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