[keith smith]

At that rate throw in COBOL 
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Keith Smith


--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 10:17 PM
> One vote for Fortran!
> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:14 PM,
> Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Vaughn
> Treude <vltreude at deru.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/20/2010 08:01 PM, keith smith wrote:
> 
> >> I'm old school and would suggest learning
> plain old C.  Then you can branch out to other languages.
> 
> >>
> 
> >> ------------------------
> 
> >> Keith Smith
> 
> >
> 
> > I second that. C is simple and versatile, and spawned
> off a whole family
> 
> > of other language such as C++ and Java.
> 
> > Vaughn Treude
> 
> 
> 
> I would not describe C as simple.  It is a small
> language (low number
> 
> of reserved words and operators) but it's highly
> versatile nature and
> 
> closeness to the hardware makes it very capable and
> dangerous.  And so
> 
> not simple, in my mind.
> 
> 
> 
> It has been my bread and butter for 20+ years so I do love
> it.
> 
> 
> 
> Alan
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