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Was this exact conversation not had decades ago regarding C & assembly-type languages? Tomorrow, lua vs C, then Go vs java, then spoken language vs whatever. (I
by bcook 11y ago
Was this exact conversation not had decades ago regarding C & assembly-type languages? Tomorrow, lua vs C, then Go vs java, then spoken language vs whatever. (I surely got the specific comparatives wrong)
Tomorrow we will take terabytes & terahertz for granted.
I see no end. Old-school vs new-school ad-infinitum.
- pjmlp 11y agoYes, once upon a time C shared a spot with the other systems programmer languages many of them safer than it, and on home-micros it was seen as a "managed language", which many used as a cheap macro assembler via the inline assembly extensions. Now its compilers are praised for speed, given 30 years of optimization efforts.