> By ratio of useful, must have programs (including code used in space missions), C wins, and Lisp doesn't have much (if anything) to show for. Those programs

> By ratio of useful, must have programs (including code used in space missions), C wins, and Lisp doesn't have much (if anything) to show for. Those programs may as well as have been written in brainfuck for all I care. You can write as many programs you want in a language, that doesn't make that language better. At the very earliest stage in their functioning, C programs go through a pre-processor that is so horribly stupid it was completely removed from D. Thats just the start of it... http://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#C_sucks_because http://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#C_sucks_because: