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Originally Posted by mtrawls
Wow! So it's not just me ... sounds like it would be cool to learn about, but I'm a little weary about letting some computer output a program for me!
Program something in Perl, then come back to me about "ugly"! Seriously, if you do it right, C can be pretty elegant ... and thinking like a compiler is a good way to reduce the bugs in your code, anyway (so it's not necessarily a bad thing). Anyway, make a page long perl regexp and *then* start talking about C (you might change your mind  ) |
Quite simply, if you're going to program a machine, you should be prepared to program
for it, not
at it. There will always be a tradeoff between ease-of-use and power, and C does a fairly good job of balancing the two.