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by cfn 5110 days ago
Not sure at all. We are still looking for a silver bullet which may be the wrong path. Pushing the analogy a bit further, if software had behaved like hardware we would have had a constant stream of small improvements over time. If this had happenned C (or Fortran for that matter)would have morphed into a "modern" language (whatever that means).