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I think what jerf means is that, being mostly used as a scripting and web language, it's easy to create legacy code in it. Remember ColdFusion? PHP 3? Howeve

by pionar 13y ago

I think what jerf means is that, being mostly used as a scripting and web language, it's easy to create legacy code in it. Remember ColdFusion? PHP 3? However, more to your point, there's legacy C and Java code, but that's because those languages have evolved heavily in their time, so late 90s Java looks little like modern Java, and techniques used in C in the 80s would get you laughed at today. Hell, even in my main language of work, C#, the difference between most code just 4 or 5 years ago and "modern" C# is vast.

danso 13y ago
That's pretty fascinating...I studied C in college and didn't hate it (in fact, I'd like to go back to C some day)...but my perception since has been that not much has changed because not much needs to change. I'd love to see a paper or article looking at innovations or change in practices in these older languages.