Re: Troll Alert: An Authors View on C

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 10/20/03 

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:39:51 -0700

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:15:15 -0700, "E. Robert Tisdale"
<E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>Fao, Sean wrote:
>
>> A guy at http://www.embedded.com gave his opinion on the C language
>> and I was shocked to see the number of supporters for the author.
>> I also find it hard to believe that 99% of all code has memory leaks;
>> but, I suppose I could be wrong.
>>
>> See what you think:
>>
>> http://www.embedded.com
>
>Take a look at
>
> http://www.ganssle.com/bio.htm
>
>Evidently, Jack Ganssle makes his living by lecturing and writing
>articles and books on embedded computing.
>He doesn't appear to have any other credentials
>in embedded computing or in C programming.

Wrong.

Ganssle has been in the embedded systems business as developer,
entrepreneur, educator, author, etc. since around 1970, give or take a
couple of years. He's well respected in the field, and was writing
8008 assembler before he wrote C. 

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