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> =ABDon't use C;  In my opinion,  C is a library programming language
>  not an app programming language.=BB  - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer)

C is a sucky library programming language as well. Less sucky than a lot
of other things, but the lack of any sort of first-class non-primitive
data really bites for library development. (I.e., the fact that you
can't return a string is quite a hinderance to most of the libraries I
tend to write.)

-- =

Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc.
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