[TUHS] roff(7) [ and other related stuff ]
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Sun Jan 2 13:04:36 AEST 2022
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 8:20 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> I'm almost speechless. My progression was Basic, Pascal, C (and later
> Fortran, Lisp, no Cobol, I did an Ada Compiler so Ada I guess). Then
> on to awk, perl, tcl, I tried to like C++ but couldn't, tried to like
> Rust, Go, D, and couldn't.
>
> If you think any of those other languages remotely approach the elegance
> of C, I just don't know what to say.
>
Elegance? C? I think not. Lisp, _that's_ elegant.
C is beautiful, you look at the code and you can see what the hardware
> will be doing but it isn't assembler.
Not really. You see what the hardware would be doing if it were a PDP-11.
That's not the same thing at all.
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