[Ilugc] A very controversial article on C
- From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Tue Sep 29 12:42:26 2009
On 09/29/2009 09:47 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Dear friends,
Kindly read this; particularly the comments section.
http://aplawrence.com/Girish/c-programming.html
Also read the linuxtoday site link where this article was posted.
Most comments say that they would not believe that somebody would
actually employ me!
Great. I am not good enough to work for anybody. Hence I am on my own...
Have fun reading the article and the much more interesting talkbacks.
Seems a pompous article and doesn't tell me anything new. It seems a bit
of a incoherent rant really.
A couple of specific examples:
* The notion that you can do anything you want in C is perhaps true but
silly. I mean, you can do everything you want in assembly language as
well but that doesn't mean, it is suitable for everything. Pick your
tool to suit the job required.
* BSDs use much of the same user land as Linux and version control isn't
centralized. Distributed development fits well within the free software
culture anyway. If you wanted a central repository, all major
distributions will provide one.
So I can't say I enjoyed reading it.
Rahul
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