On (29 May 94) Bob Lawrence wrote to David Begley...



 DB> As our Systems Programming 1 lecturer said last year:



 DB> "C was *meant* to be dangerous!"



 BL> Yair... I don't think it's for me. I'm beginning to get a feel for

 BL> it, and it is totally unforgiving of fools. From my foolish point

 BL> of view C is ridiculous. I think I might go back to something more

 BL> user friendly like Pascal or Visual Basic.



i think that the difference is like driving yourself, as against flying

in an airliner. in the latter case, there are all sorts of people around

to make sure that you don't come to any harm, in the former, it is all

up to you, no one is there to prevent you from driving off a cliff if

you misread the road sign. i, being a hacker by nature hate writing in

ada or pascal, but when i fly i do hope to hell that the software in the

'plane's autopilot was written in one of these.



                            keith



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