On 3/08/2013 12:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 10:17:42 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
Aww, it was getting interesting. Not been the same since the days of
Ali and Frazier.
Personally, I wish C had never seen the light of day and PL/I had the
place of COBOL.
The entry path problem: If I could get a PL/I compiler for the same
price for which I have a C compiler (or is there one; have I not looked
far enough?), and if the variety of FOSS available for C were likewise
available for PL/I (Or have I not looked in the right places?), I'd be
more inclined to experiment with PL/I.
It's a moot point. If you want PL/I you know where to find it. You can't
wind back time and as flawed (and it is seriously flawed) as C is
it has been incredibly successful. It runs the operating systems of the
worlds most popular PCs, servers, tablets, phones. The firmware in
routers/modems,
embedded systems, digital watches. The e-mail clients we're using are
almost certainly written in C or it's successor C++.
Even contemporary languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lua are
written in C or C++ as are frameworks like Ruby on Rails, node.js. You
can't avoid it, it's everywhere.
And even now, after almost 40 years it's still the most popular language
on the planet
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html.
-- gil
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