On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 8:20 PM Larry McVoy <lm@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.