>>Tamar famously called C a write-only language. Way back now, when I aspired to be a C developer, I subscribed to the leading C magazine. The last page was a column called Obfuscated C. It consisted of seemingly actual C code submitted by real C developers that defied you to understand it. I really enjoyed it.
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>I've heard that statement before (that C is a write-only, write-once language). Candidly, that's a false statement (usually) advanced by people who didn't write C applications for a living.
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FWIW, I originally made the observation in grad school when our department was fairly evenly divided between those working in C and those (like me) working in Pascal. I agree that any language can be abused (and I've seen plenty of truly horrible Fox code over the years). I do think that some languages are easier to abuse than others, and that C is in that class.

Tamar