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What language do you think would have replaced it? It seems to me that C had already won as the de facto systems language, long before any of these "modern opt
by iainmerrick 9y ago
What language do you think would have replaced it?
It seems to me that C had already won as the de facto systems language, long before any of these "modern optimisation techniques" cropped up.
Optimisations that make it harder to use the language safely are downright dangerous in my book.
- pjmlp 9y agoI would have been happy with Modula-2, Ada or Object Pascal as basis. But better yet would have been Modula-3 or Active Oberon.
- iainmerrick 9y agoI hear very good things about Ada, aside from its unfriendly old-fashioned syntax.
- pjmlp 9y agoSome of us do enjoy verbose explicit syntax instead of hieroglyphs. :) Quite helpful when maintaining unknown code in big corp projects.