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From: sasmsr@zinfande.unx.sas.com (Mark S. Riggle)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <35dcf9$jao@news.aero.org>, doner@aero.org (John Doner) writes:
|>   The
|> intellectual effort required to develop a good model for Lisp or Ada is
|> much greater than that required to develop one for C.  There are more
|> abstractions involved.  
|> 
|> I invite criticism of this theory.
|> 


It's the SLSM theory again (my favorite). That is 'Simple Languages
for Simple Minds'.

Although you can argue that C is not a simple language since it
is so hard to get things right.

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