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by claytongulick 1408 days ago
Under that argument, why bother improving anything?

At the end of the day, you can do anything you need to do in C.

What's the point of having all these other languages?

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> Under that argument, why bother improving anything?

That's not the problem, is it?

The choice you're faced with is breaking compatibility just to add little to no value.