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Originally Posted by acidzebra
But I appreciate what you are trying to say, I just doubt my C program will become an ubiquitous part of common culture much as Shakespeare's works have become - and I doubt that any single program ever will.
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It's interesting that you should use Shakespeare as an example
. He's the classic example of a man who was writing simply as a job to put food on the table. He wasn't a wealthly nobleman who wrote as a hobby or for cultural reasons, but just as a job to make a living. If he hadn't been able to make money from his writing (by people buying tickets for the plays he wrote), he certainly couldn't have afforded to do it.