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["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dick,

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> 
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> Curious about scala now.  Later I came to refer to the lower level
> languages as "programming on your hands and knees".  Each has their
> place, but this is determined by the platform.  The fact that the linux
> kernel is written in C, is a perfect language choice.  It should be in
> C.  But when you move up into the application space, and have enough
> disk space, and infrastructure, and still write in C, you are now
> "programming on your hands and knees" IMO.

Looking at the code I can see that a lot of people have
been "programming on their hands and knees" in C++.
Most of it is C code fed at a C++ compiler.

--brian