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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:52:17 GMT
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In article <39FE461D.275F1363@ix.netcom.com>,
  Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Someone once said, "C is its own virus."   This same comment
> extends to C++.

That probably came from the old "Worse is Better" paper, by
rpg@lucid.com. (If I was a good CLOS person, I'd probably know who "rpg"
is.) see
http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles//good-news/subsection3.2.1.html . It
contains the comment:

"Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses."


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T.E.D.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html


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