"John Laird" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:07:24 -0000, "IMM" wrote:

"Andy Wade" wrote in message
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"John Laird" wrote in message
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Correct. Lisp and Algol predated Cobol, too.

Nostalgia: I used to be quite proficient in Algol 60; never could
understand
why anyone could prefer Fortran...

"C" beats em all. operating systems have been written in C.

That's all that should be written in C, in my book (and there are better
languages for that). And even then only by people with at least 0.9 of a
clue.

You obviously don't know about C. The problem with C is that if the
programmer is not educated to write structured code it is awful and
spaghetti like. Pascal is the best language to learn from as it forces the
user into a reasonably structured way. Write all languages like in Pascal
and you can't go wrong.

C is a programers language. It is for getting your hands dirty.


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