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In thirty years, C code may be a goofy relic of ages past that is difficult to get going. (Yeah yeah, you're probably thinking C is eternal. But I'm sure peopl
by mattgreenrocks 15y ago
In thirty years, C code may be a goofy relic of ages past that is difficult to get going.
(Yeah yeah, you're probably thinking C is eternal. But I'm sure people swore that older languages would survive no matter what.)
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- gaius 15y agoOn the Starship Enterprise, the payroll will still be done in COBOL.
- EdiX 15y agoOlder languages as widespread as C did survive and will haunt us forever and ever.
- freehunter 15y ago45 years later and I'm still waiting for something better than Unix and convoluted shell scripting. But what do you know, it's still around, it's still in production almost everywhere, and it's still required learning at schools. If something is going to replace the best tool for the job, it will have to be a lot better than "better". Not that it hasn't happened before, but in these two cases, it hasn't happened yet.