It's funnny how, when java first came out, everyone was writing applets and not doing a good job of it (incl myself). This was due to it being way easier to co

It's funnny how, when java first came out, everyone was writing applets and not doing a good job of it (incl myself). This was due to it being way easier to code and deploy as opposed to C/C++ at the time. This gave ppl the impression that java was slow, when in fact the code was terrible (and ms was constantly submarining sun). Now I'm sitting here with 16GB of really terrible Javascript code running in my browser using 5% constantly of the fastest intel chip you can buy today. No one says it's slow probably because no one knows it's running. If chrome and ff put a task in the process list with all the Javascript CPU usage I'm guessing things would be way different. I really do think K&R C should be taught to university level students. It's important to understand pointers and mallocs, even if you don't use it often.