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The long goodbye to C
- zeveb 9y ago> Learning Python in 1997 was quite the watershed event for me. It was wonderful – like having the Lisp of my earliest years back, but with good libraries! And a full POSIX binding! And an object system that didn’t suck! … I don't think ESR gets CLOS. It's an object system which doesn't suck, and is far more capable than Python's.
- shakna 9y agoLooking at the timeline, I'd be surprised if Lisp referred to 'Common Lisp' and not something earlier in the family.
- randcraw 9y agoNo systems programming successor to C other than Go? Why not a subset of C++, akin to the convention-based subset of C adopted for the Linux kernel? ESR doesn't say, at least not here.
- philonoist 9y agoThis is a dupe to the already full fledged discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670423
- zeveb 9y agoThat second discussion was posted after my version …