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Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2009 10:40:32 -0700
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
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	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
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> >K&R is beautiful in this respect. In contrast, I
> never managed to
> >bite in Stroustrup's description.
>
> Ok, now I'll get provocative:
> Then why do so many people have a problem understanding C?

Are you saying that there is a significant number of
people who understand C++ but not C?  The reason I
ask is that it's exactly the other way around for me.
C is a simple enough language that I can understand
it in the sense of knowing what the compiler is doing
with my code.  With C++, I have a much harder time
keeping my head around what's being done with the
code, and that makes it much harder for me to understand
the code, much less the language.

BLS