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by bubuga
3688 days ago
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> C was a pretty good language in 1978. We didn't know a lot of things in 1978 that we do now in 2016. We also have nearly 40 years of infrastructure built on C, which needs to be maintained and updated. This is the same old argument advocating for rewriting everything from scratch just because someone somewhere managed to develop a new flavor of the month. There are plenty of reasons why the whole world still has a heavy demand for COBOL and FORTRAN developers, and the development of new flavor of the month isn't a good enough reason to eliminate this demand. |
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I'm not saying rewrite everything for no reason. I'm saying that there are reasons, and we've gotten a very good idea of what those are over the last 40 years.