#Sunday 17 March 2002 14:07# Message from Don Cox:
> On 15-Mar-02, Steve Shireman wrote:
>
> > Alan says that the mainstream software is very "brittle" and does not
> > scale well. Are you brave enough to enter a house built using the
> > techniques that "modern" software engineers are using to build
> > software?
> > (Of course not!)
>
> This results from inappropriate use of the C programming language.
> People code applications in C, when it is really only suitable for low
> level OS code.
Objection! :)
Chris (who spends 85% of his time using C and C++)
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