[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“The C programming language is a fine language that many of us
hold dear. But it’s not necessarily the right solution for every
situation, and it certainly isn’t the fastest way to create one of
the most common classes of applications today: end-user-oriented
graphical user interface (GUI) applications. When you don’t care
about raw number-crunching power or the ability to directly touch
low-level aspects of the machine, suddenly those strengths turn
into a hindrance, wasting something very important and expensive —
the time of your developers…”