Boom wrote: > What you say is true. But it doesn't alter the fact that C is obsolete, > and has been obsolete for several decades.
Rewind to early nineties and substitute UNIX for C. The king is dead, long live the king! The command-line is lame, now that we've invented the windows paradigm. Yadda yadda yadda. Do we really need a programming language/evangelism war started? Hell, yes! > It survives because of inertia. It's the systems language most people It's certainly not because it works, and has little cruft, right? Modula-3 is relegated to first year compsci programs for a reason. Name something cool written in Modula-3?! huh! It's got no JIT so it's got no friends, right? Frankly, all procedural languages are passe and should be replaced by declarative languages post-haste. If you had said Ada I would have said cool, satellites and guidance systems. > another language. It's too much work. Dumb ideas are generally a lot of work. One simple argument why C is good and not going anywhere... experiencial data confirms that it's adequate for a multi-decades long, globally distributed free software massively collaborative development project (or two). Not broken, don't fix it. -E _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
