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by pcwalton
3689 days ago
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The thing is, I think you can simultaneously have all of these opinions: (a) K&R were/are top-notch computer scientists; (b) K&R was a fantastically written book; (c) C was a great language in 1978; (d) we should be moving away from C in 2016. The fact that we didn't know as much about programming languages in 1978 as we do now in no way diminishes the significance of the work. I think that C should rapidly be moving toward obsolescence, and I hold K&R in great esteem. |
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