Re: Why Use anything BUT C?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:14:29 GMT

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 01:19:23 GMT, Mike Wahler <mkwahler@mkwahler.net> wrote:
>
>
> "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
> news:Olngb.438$av5.302@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> Greetings to the group. I'm reading the FAQ and K&R and monitoring here,
>> trying to get a handle on the transition from shell programming to C.
>>
>> From what I've read, I honestly don't see the need for anything BUT C
>> and the simple functionality of the high-level programming provided by
>> any decent shell. (Okay, a teeny weenie bit of assembly language too :-)
>
> Which language(s) you find useful will of course depend
> upon the application domain(s). Certain languages are more
> suited to particular tasks than others. If C, shell scripting
> and assembly is all you need to get the job done, nothing
> wrong with that.
>
>>
>> Hope I am not out-of-line here.
>>
>> By-the-way, is there anyplace I can get the entire FAQ as a tarball or
>> something?
>
> The FAQ itself (at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html)
> has links to such. Scan the first few paragraphs for the
> phrase "other versions".
>
> HTH,
> -Mike
>
>

Thanks Mike. Don't know how I missed that. Got it now from the FTP site.

Long...Scary :-)

Thanks to Steve Summit. 

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