"I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location."
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Chaos Manor, Byte magazine, October 1990, page 84.
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017) was an American essayist, journalist and science fiction author.
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