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This!
by beders 12y ago
This!
- avmich 12y agoThe whole APL, the Turing prize, the Google which in the news in regard to that prize... All of them conspired. Approximate quote from a C textbook: "Besides, C is actually the language made for programmers. Pascal is for students, Basic for housewives, Lego for schoolchildren, Fortran for scientist, APL for martians... Only C is for programmers." First time I saw APL I was suspicious - can it do anything in addition to matrix manipulation? I do understand your concerns. P.S. BTW, Dijkstra ones was asking Iverson if APL is actually Turing-complete, or something like that. Iverson produced a typical APL answer for a problem - which wouldn't say much to anybody who doesn't know the meaning of symbols. Just like reading in foreign alphabet.
- BugsBunnySan 12y agoThe title of this article provides a good argument for "C being for programmers." Seems like for every language FOO there's bound to be between 1 and a-lot of tutorials and introductions 'FOO for C Programmers'. Most languages appear to have an inferiority complex when it comes to C, so they need to prove how much better they are...
- kd0amg 12y agoMore likely, new languages realize that they are the new thing and that (a naive mental model of) C is the established lingua franca of programming.