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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
by SaxonRobber 7y ago
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
- hugi 7y agoThis sentence has been used to justify so much evil in the world.
- SaxonRobber 7y agoI know C++ is a vile, but Bjarne only had the best intentions. Cut him some slack!
- pjmlp 7y agoThere is a third one, the ones that cause billions of monetary losses in fixing security exploits. It was a big mistake from US government to have forbidden Bell Labs to be able to sell UNIX on its early days. C only got widespread because it had a free beer compiler and OS to back on.
- SaxonRobber 7y agoToo bad the other dinosaurs didn’t catch on until it was too late and they died. (Or became zombies)
- pjmlp 7y agoYou mean like all modern C compilers are actually written in C++? Or that C hardly has a place on Windows, ChromeOS, iOS, macOS, Fuschia, Android, beyond legacy Win32/POSIX APIs?