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Not a great headline really, C is nearly 50, but most people wouldn't consider it a disaster for everything to be written in C. The problem isn't that COBOL is

Not a great headline really, C is nearly 50, but most people wouldn't consider it a disaster for everything to be written in C. The problem isn't that COBOL is old, it's that it's largely obsolete.

TomMarius 7y ago
Who would not consider a information system application written in C a disaster? Can't think of anyone who who would want to work on that. I agree with your point though.
- jatone 7y ago
  no, because literally every application except the most trivial touch c. every major RBMS is c or c++. you don't write frontend's with c/c++ but if you're interacting with a datastore most are c. the problem with c and c++'s age are legacy behaviors related to them we've since determined are not beneficial to actual programs and make reasoning about them harder.
  - jjeaff 7y ago
    Of course everything touches c. But it's mostly all open source stuff that is maintained by a large community of coders and is mostly underlying dependencies. When you are developing software, you just want that stuff to work. You don't want to have to dig around in the internals to figure things out. That's why scripting languages have become so popular.
  - TomMarius 7y ago
    I don't know anyone who would consider calling a C library or other software "programming in C".