On 01/07/2011 14:37, M.L. wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Gerhard Fiedler
> <lists@connectionbrazil.com>wrote:
>
>> Michael Watterson wrote:
>>
>>> AT&T "broke" C++ by insistence on backward compatibility with C.
>> Which is now broken anyway, sort of at least.
>>
>> Gerhard
>>
>>
> C is broken? How? Someone forgot to tell me.
>
Why invent Objective C, C++, Java, C# and a gazillion other stuff if it=20
isn't?
Why do we have patch after patch to Applications and OSes?

It's not any more broken than it ever was. So don't worry, if you are=20
using C and getting the job done. Most programmers using C++ or=20
Objective C are mostly or entirely programming in C really anyway. The=20
really old ones think they are using ForTran as the counter loops are=20
meaningfully named i, j and k




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