On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:49:15PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2012-05-19, at 11:43, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Or still using it, basically unchanged, as our primary system > > programming language in 2012. > > Yeh, it really sucks that in 50 years nobody has ever been able to > develop a genuinely better alternative.
is it because there are not genuinely better alternatives, or the cost of moving to them is too high? 50 years of legacy code seems a difficult (if not impossible) momentum to overcome. -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agr...@poofygoof.com
