XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-05 19:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > On 05/01/2026 17:48, rbowman wrote:   
   >> The C changes over the years like being able to declare variables where   
   >> they are first used and single line comments were something I greeted   
   >> with   
   >> "Hell yeah!" rather than "What CS PhD dreamed this crap up?"   
   >   
   > Spot on.   
   >   
   > C is enough to do the job and simple to learn. Why complicate shit?   
   >   
      
   My C teacher said it was a mistake to use C as an all purpose language,   
   like for userland applications. Using C is the cause of many bugs that a   
   proper language would catch.   
      
   That was around 1991.   
      
   He knew. He participated in some study tasked by the Canadian government   
   to study C compilers, but he could not talk about what they wrote.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
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