I would have assigned it an E at the time; I was appalled. C++ cleans up some but not all of the warts, and a lot of the warts in C++ are there only for compatibility.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of John McKown [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cobol On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:12 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, it's not politically correct to point out how old C is. > I always thought it was named "C" because that would have been the grade a student would have gotten if he/she had designed it in a modern computer science class. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
