C Bigotry (Erratum)

[Where's the falafel?]

Good heavens!
	I wasn't aware of the text-gobbler, and my last submission
suffered from it.  Let's see if I can reconstruct what I said:

> <BELABORING_OF_THE_OBVIOUS = "ON">
> 	There's no point in comparing C and Pascal, because C is a
> medium-level language and Pascal is a higher-level language.
>	What is meant by C's "efficiency" isn't necessarily its
> code generation, which is dependent on the compiler; nor how much
> it holds the programmer's hand, which is dependent on the availa-
> bility and usage of features that can be turned on and off.  Since
> I do most of my work on a VMS system, I use DEC's VAX C, which has
> all the same debugging and tracing and some of the checking features
> as all the other languages DEC makes for VMS.
>	What's efficient about C is its ease of implementation and
> a reduction in development and relearning time because your systems
> programmers don't need to code in assembly language.
> <BELABORING_OF_THE_OBVIOUS = "OFF">

	As promised, the lost part was belaboring the obvious; though
it set the context for the rest of what I said.

	By the way, I guess it's only fair to admit that *I* am a C
bigot of sorts.  I think C's the greatest thing since unsliced whole-
wheat bread (and the greatest thing since C is Gosling's EMACS).
		<_Jym_>

| Jym Dyer | Nashua, New Hampshire | ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!vaxuum!dyer |

Sat 17-Mar-1984 12:23 Zen (not EST!) Time