If C is so evil why is it so successful?

[Don North]

On 4/13/2017 7:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 04/13/2017 05:47 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote:
>
>> Then my dad got transferred to Chicago and that high school had
>> “access” to IITRAN.  By access, that meant punching cards, and
>> waiting for the teacher to load in batch and waiting for the results.
>>
>>
>> Losing the interactive aspect overshadowed the language features.
>
> To  be fair, many Chicago-area high schools did have interactive (TTY)
> access in the 60s to IITRAN.  IITRAN TTY access extended far beyond the
> Chicago area.
>
> http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-iitran-1899.html
>
> Not a bad language for the time.  Probably better than BASIC.
>
> --Chuck
>
I especially liked the Spanish language version of IITRAN: 
http://www.ak6dn.com/stuff/spantran.pdf

Don