Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist <at> embedinc.com> writes:
> Wow, C is even worse than I realized.  I can maybe forgive a couple of
> hackers creating a quick and dirty language for their own use, but using C
> for more real purposes is blatantly irresponsible programming.

<G!!!!> Olin, you must do your citizen's duty and tell all these people stop
blowing tax money on these SUPERCOMPUTERS, each of which runs an os created by a
Finn and another 2-300 anarchic Libertarians and Communists. The os contains
about 3 million lines of C ...

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-884297.html
http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/15/cz_dl_0315linux.html
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6099969220.html

Quick, Olin, you must save the world.

<aside>I do not worship my screwdriver, but C and *nix have been the state of
the art operating system and systems implementation and programming language
respectively for the last 20 years and are still going strong. There are no
other languages besides C that I know, that will scale from an 8 bit $0.5 CPU
with 24 words of ram to machines installations that are large enough that one
needs a bike and an elevator to be able to get to the toilets in time.</aside>

As far as I know, no other language comes close to these features.

Peter


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