The charm of C is that it's like the Matrix red pill, you are never lied to and you see the world for what it really is - ugly but full of potential, There's something nice about being able to write tight, performant code on whichever hardware you see fit - after all, there's *always* a C compiler available. C still has its core audience as a systems programming language, whereas Java has degraded from a rich client domain to a server backend domain (if you disregard Android, which is not technically or legally Java). It thus seems very plausible that in 20 years, C is still around, while Duke has been at a retirement home for decades.
I'll add one more twist of irony to the mix. On the client side, Java was beat by a bastard scripting language invented by NetScape, namely JavaScript - another ugly language, albeit not as ugly as some of the alternatives that appeared along the way (VBScript etc.). > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/I7v1fOpMd5UJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
