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rffn
12y ago
I thought this exists already: http://www.salesforce.com
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rffn
12y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Could be that the header file is not compatible with C99 either. This seems to me rather likely. Also it might be that the ABI changed in a way that the C89. This depends on platform and tool chain. There is a large amount
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12y ago
I think I meant to write Perl 5, completely forgot about the Perl 4 vs. Perl 5 excitement in the early 90s. I am not sure yet whether Python 2 to Python 3 is more like Perl 4 to Perl 5 or more like Perl 5 to Perl 6, but for Python's sa
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12y ago
IMHO Python 2 is one of the big, important languages of computing history with a large enough user and code base which makes them go nowhere, no matter what a committee decides. I would put Cobol, C, Perl, Java, Fortran in the same league.