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C is not a fad. The sudden love for C is the logical backlash caused by the abuse of lasagna layer upon layer of enterprise oo mvc enabled, xml configurable, o

C is not a fad. The sudden love for C is the logical backlash caused by the abuse of lasagna layer upon layer of enterprise oo mvc enabled, xml configurable, orm supporting, osgi friendly huge monolith frameworks. A whole generation of developers have barely known simple and small. And they got tired of big enterprise and are searching for something "not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age." . Maybe it is the wrong direction in which they are searching - but I think that C mastery pays off in the long term.

johncarpinelli 14y ago
Totally agree. Learning object oriented frameworks gives me a headache. I learned C back in 1991 for first-year CS classes. Consider all the software built in C: Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, etc. It's the dominant infrastructure of the web. What language will be used to build the first human-level AI? I think it will probably be C, and less than 1 million lines of code.
- Munksgaard 14y ago
  > What language will be used to build the first human-level AI? I think it will probably be C, and less than 1 million lines of code. I don't think so, but I respect your opinion.