Your “language wars” discussion had a number of “Why Pascal is not my favorite language” replies from C advocates. I wonder if the real battle is not Pascal vs C but Lisp vs everything else?
While C is used in other places, it is connected to Unix, and the definitive word on Unix, saying things we are not allowed to say in mixed company, is found here (Unix Haters Handbook): http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Ok, if Unix and by association C is hated in some quarters, was there a Golden Age of Computing that the barbarian hordes of Unix and C had displaced? Some say it was the PDP-10 TOPS-10 operating system, a particularly user-friendly and flexible command-line system. Others point to Lisp and Lisp Machines. The notion is that Lisp Machines used Lisp all the way from the application program to the OS down to the very hardware, it was all very graphical and highly interactive, the debugger was always available and could monitor, evaluate, or repair anything by the user writing some more Lisp code. The Lisp Machine went the way of the dinosaur because it was expensive, artificial intelligence was oversold to investors, and Unix/C workstations were much
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