Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/

Those reminded me of the time when in another news server I demonstrated
the superiority of C++ over C (how do I love to troll C hackers...) by
writing a few lines of code that would count the number of words in an
input file and print the words with their count alphabetically sorted.
(This is the kind of program that requires a half dozen lines in standard
C++ but hundreds in standard C.)

A C programmer responded with a C program that made a system() call to
a third-party program (which wasn't even part of any standard Linux/Unix
distro). And he was being *serious*.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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