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> We all know how the freedom for creativity end up. You mean, it completely dominates the programming world? C is a massive success story, no other language
by erichocean 8y ago
> We all know how the freedom for creativity end up.
You mean, it completely dominates the programming world?
C is a massive success story, no other language even comes close.
- pjmlp 8y agoThings given for free are always a success story. Had AT&T been allowed to charge for UNIX since the beginning and not 10 years later after being split by the government and C would have been a footnote on the history of systems programming languages. In a world where many don't want to pay for software, free trumps technical merits.
- valuearb 8y agoC is garbage, a loaded shotgun with no safety. I say this as someone who spent twenty years writing object c code. The only way we survived was to build safety into a massive set of core libraries and use them religiously.