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Every time a piece of legacy c/c++ code get's replaced with something written in a sane language i smile a little!

• pjmlp 5y ago
  Unfortunely there are tons of domains that it will never happen, given the existing ecosystem We as society basically have to undo 50 years of going into the wrong direction, without the economical incentives to fix them, rather mitigate their faults.
  • dtx1 5y ago
    While that is true and for some extreme cases might stay true for a long time (> 100 years) most software has a lifetime, even if it's damn long and as long as we start writing new software in better languages we will see progress over time, simply by old software dying or no one being able to deal with the legacy codebase anymore
  • zozbot234 5y ago
    There are millions of lines of code written in COBOL in production use, pretty much all of them addressing business-critical needs. FORTRAN scientific codes are not far behind, either. Better get crackin'.
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      Yet COBOL and Fortran standards are way more modern than WG14 will ever bother doing to C.