[plug] [link] Programming languages - and their faults

[Craig Ringer]

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/05/12/languagephilosophy.html

My (personal) favourite:
"What I Hate About C

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       It's often used inappropriately. Unless I'm writing a kernel, a 
device driver, a virtual machine, or an interface to a C or C++ library, 
writing in C is a probably premature optimization.
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       Thirty years of growth and patches to the standard library have 
produced many, many similar functions with similar, terse names. Quick, 
what are the differences between execl, execlp, execle, execv, and 
execvp? If you're not using these every day, you'll be hitting man 3 
exec often."