From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T04:01:49+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

Martin Coxall wrote:
>> K & R and the rest of the UNIX founders apparently thought otherwise. :)
>>
> 
> The K&R C specification is tiny. I wouldn't want to write a parser for a
> language spec of the magnitude of C++ or Perl 6 in C.
> 
> Others would though, and those people are bonkers.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
The people who designed C++ and Perl 6 are the ones who are bonkers, not
those who would parse them with C. :)