Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

From: Alan Shutko (ats_at_acm.org)
Date: 08/30/03

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    Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes:

    > It's called maintainability. Who says *you* are going to be the next
    > person to touch the code?

    We try to hire people with a basic knowledge of the language.

    I can see your concern with the fifteen different ways perl can
    represent ifs (at least the language doesn't have COME FROM) but this
    is a bit excessive? Do you also wrap if bodies in a few extra layers
    of parentheses, in case someone comes along and wants to add a || and
    forgets to? 

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