On 10/14/2011 11:45 AM, Jack wrote:
Steve Jobs was nothing, Bill Gates is nothing, Dennis Richie was a god.
I, at one time, thought God came to Richie (and his partner Mr.
Kernighan) after becoming frustrated with all the screwed up code being
written at the time, and wrote C and Unix for these two. Nothing much
has occurred to change those thoughts.
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How fortuitous timing... I just very recently finished reading Jack
Ganssle's article "C Sucks" in his newsletter "The Embedded Muse 214"

http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem214.htm

Couldn't have said it better meself...

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