On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:21, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages > > seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant > > language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question. Why, > > exactly, is C so popular? > > It's relatively easy to learn, plus everybody else in the unix world > uses C. It's portable. It helps to know your history: C was created > to write unix to begin with.
To sound like your mother: because everybody else in the world jumps off a cliff, does that mean you should? Of course not... In other words, programmers who use C primarily because "everybody else in the unix world uses C" and "C was created to write unix to begin with" are sheep. Give me a better reason, like "I need to touch the hardware", or "the scripting language I use only allows binary extensions to be written in C". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fear the Penguin!!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]