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As a language that celebrated its 50th birthday this year, C is already a long-lived language. It's not terribly far behind the first non-research compiled lang
by mumblemumble 4y ago
As a language that celebrated its 50th birthday this year, C is already a long-lived language. It's not terribly far behind the first non-research compiled language, Fortran, which celebrated its 65th birthday this year.
Both are, for all practical purposes, immortal languages at this point. You correctly point out that they aren't guaranteed to survive the next technological mass extinction event, but I think that might just be a truism.
- echelon 4y agoI think we're about to enter an era where more code will be written on an annual basis than all previously existing written code. The same holds for music, art, photos.