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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:24:17 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> C has been in continuous use for around forty years,
> and there are enormous amounts of working C code
> everywhere.

Slavery was around for thousands of years. Slaves built the Colosseum and
Pyramids. How silly of us would be not to deploy such an established
economical and technological framework.

> If you believe that every line of C code
> is broken, I submit that the fault lies in you, not
> in the code - you may not understand how to evaluate
> C code properly.

Yes, there is something wrong with us...

Remember the episode in Space Quest III with slave programmers working at
ScumSoft company? I bet they used C. (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de