problems/risks due to programming language

[Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL]

In article <1990Mar1.172526.28683 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> 
> There are enough real problems with C and C++ without making up silly
> strawmen.
> 
> (P.S. They remain eminently usable languages for people who know what
> they're doing, although incompetents and novices should definitely
> avoid them.  Alas, all too many of the "real programs" in the world are
> written by incompetents and novices...)



While I agree 100% with everything you said in this article in
support of the modern C language, aren't you being a little
contradictory in your postscript?  Unless you anticipated
Dennis Ritchie, one day you too were a novice in C.  Fortunately
you didn't avoid it.  (;-))

Forrest Gehrke feg at clyde.ATT.COM