Re: Euphoria features

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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, JIRI wrote:

> BTW I do
> not understand why the vast majority of this congregation seems to
> hate C so much. Ignorance? (this will make me even more popular..)
> After all, it is a remarkably simple, elegant language, a bit too
> terse for my taste, but with very few flaws and still unsurpassed for
> its power in the right hands.

True. With all that power comes a plethora of ways to misuse it, either
intentionally or by accident.  C makes it far to easy for inexperienced
programmers to  trip and fall into a pit, where they land on the bodies of the
experienced C programmers that preceeded them.

Irv

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