Ocupation: Computer programmer
Life: June 13, 1965 - June 17, 2009
Birthday: June 13
Death: June 17
C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.
source: Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 20, 2000.
topic: Simple, Design, Language, Cleaners, Assembly Language, Semantics