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- From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams)
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
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- References: <1992Dec23.220530.15347@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.154204.25248@blkbox> <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:08:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes (among other things in an excellant article):
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- ; PASCAL was designed solely
- ; for the purpose of teaching structured programming as espoused by
- ; Tom DeMarco, Richard West, et al. C was written in 1969 for the
- ; express purpose of providing a general purpose Operating Systems
- ; language that was portable, (spelled UNIX).
- ;
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- Yes, isn't it interesting that two of the most popular general purpose
- languages for writing applications software were not designed to be used to
- write application software. Has anyone written a general purpose language
- to do what I would think is the most common use of computer programming -
- to write application programs? And if this/these exist, what are they and
- how do you rate them? [just curious]
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- Ben.
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- Ben Williams
- bew@brahms.udel.edu
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- What we got here is a failure to communicate...
-