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-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Pew, Curtis G [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fascinating Interview with Steve Jobs [non-mainframe] - now Gary Kildall On Apr 3, 2023, at 12:03 AM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I actually always liked C, maybe because its original simplicity reminded me of Assembler. I mean, what other language can you goof up a length value or pointer and overwrite a bunch of other data areas by mistake? Oh yeah, Assembler! Sometime in the distant past I saw C described as “warmed-over PDP-11 assembler.” -- Curtis Pew ITS Campus Solutions [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
