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Learn C What if You But god said Linus Torvalds on C From: Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: RFC Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git Date: 2007-09-06 17:50:28 GMT (2 years, 14 weeks, 16 hours and 36 minutes ago) On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd: 1. Pure C as opposed to C. No idea why. Please don’t talk about portability, it’s BS. YOU are full of bullshit. C is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C