[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[Alex Evans]

On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Neil Morrison wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>
>
>> Because there is more free C source code on the web than any other
>> language.  This source can be altered with much less effort than it 
>> takes
>> to create it from scratch. ...
>
> I'd take that with a grain of salt. I've never found C to be very 
> portable
> and sometimes it's horrendously unportable. FWIW, I always look at 
> Pascal
> compilers first - personal taste.

Standard Pascal is too limited to be useful.  It isn't even possible to 
make a program which requests a file name, then lists the contents of 
that file to the screen.  C is very portable if properly written, of 
course few people bother to make any effort at all to make things 
portable.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?