decline of net.lang.c

[Craig Knelsen]

        Both cgw at mruxe.uucp and dlnash%ut-ngp.uucp at BRL.ARPA complain that
this newsgroup has rapidly deteriorated due to such things as the never
ending saga of why the equality test operator is == instead of = which I
believe has been the result of some misguided Pascal programmers trying to
get people to believe that the language can actually do something useful.
I thought that this group was for discussing C-related topics only. I don't
want to invest my time in reading it if all this Pascal gibberish is thrown
in as well. It's hard to believe that companies like Apple Computer have
based their Macintosh firmware on Pascal or that this language can be used in
ACM Programming Contests but not C (maybe they know that 10 Pascal to 2 C
Programmers is still no match whatsoever and they want to give these less
fortunate people a fighting chance).
        I am Anti-Pascal? Whatever gave you that idea?


                                                        Craig Knelsen
                                                        University of Regina
                                                        Regina, Sask.

UUCP: {ihnp4 | utcsri | alberta} !sask!regina!cknelsen

    "Real Programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of
     those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people
     with weak memories."