[prog] Sample implementations of UNIX utilities.

Robert J. Hansen cortana at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 23 20:33:41 EST 2002


> I found C quite useful to study when I was an undergraduate, because it
> was only after learning C that I understood memory use and references v.
> values etc. This is the second language for most of the students, after
> Java, and concurrent with assembler.

Oh, I agree it's quite useful to study--but I wouldn't want to make a career
out of it.  (Tried it, found it grotesquely unpleasant.  We've got perfectly
good Ocaml and LISP compilers; why oughtn't we use them?)  :)




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