In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/01/2006
at 09:59 AM, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying
>according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the
>elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and
>maintainability of assembly language." (MIT Jargon Dictionary)
It may be *described* that way, but the description is incorrect.
People making the claim are clearly not familiar with the elegance and
power of a decent macro language.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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