LOL But, I'm not a Rust evangelist, I don't even know the language and have never coded with it. That was just a fun potshot. Erik Naggum would have been proud!
Fortran died. Pascal died. COBOL died. ADA died. Lisp died. Java would have died but then got propped up by Android and HTML-5. PHP is dying by nibbles from Python. I daresay C would have died but it got propped up by Unix & Linux, and C++ would have died except it got propped up by C. VisualBasic died when C# killed it off. While code remains code and it's unlikely any language will ever truly be completely dead, they all have had their day where they ruled the world, and now aren't. If anything, programming languages have bifurcated. There, that's your vocabulary word for the day! :-) Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ben Koenig via PLUG Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:54 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Cc: Ben Koenig <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Followup: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting: Bring Your Own On Sunday, April 5th, 2026 at 11:22 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > "Erik Naggum hated Perl with a passion, and considered Perl to be a problem, > not a problem solver.[10] He disliked C++, though not as much as he hated > Perl, but he generally thought that C++ was too difficult to understand to > such a degree that only about 5 people on the planet truly understood it and > hence it was of little value for humanity." > > And it only took the rest of the programming community 30 years to finally > come on board with that idea and create the Rust language. > Yes, because Rust is definitely the first and only attempt to make a simpler alternative to C++. Also that "quote" on his wikipedia page is not properly cited, unlike may of the other Erik Naggum statements that they did properly quote and cite. That particular wikipedia paragraph reads as conjecture on the part of the writer and probably violates wikipedia's own standards when it comes to providing factually correct information. Grain of salt, Ted. You know, in the off chance the ghost of toxic coders past comes back and starts flaming Rust. ;) -Ben
