Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language

From: Preben Randhol (randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news_at_pvv.org)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:26:55 +0000 (UTC)

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.ada.]
On 2004-02-06, Les Cargill <lcargill@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> 'C' is a right-regular language, with good orthogonality of
> operators. That literally means "easy to read" - or at least
> having the capacity to be writrten in a fashion that is easy
> to read.

This is simply not true. How come there are so many buffer overflow
security problems then? However, let us not start a language war again
(as usually happens each time somebody crosspost between several
language newsgroups).

> If you've ever seen any deep Perl code, you'd understand :)

And if you had seen Ada95 code you would understand that C[++] isn't
readable. Especially with huge projects. 

-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."

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