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pjmlp
221 days ago
Hardly, see programming languages standards and compiler specific extensions.
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aDyslecticCrow
221 days ago
languages are more fluid than processor architectures. I don't think they can be compared.
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pjmlp
221 days ago
One would think, yet welcome to enterprise consulting, especially customers whose main business is not selling software.
You will find fossilized languages all over the place.
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aDyslecticCrow
221 days ago
fossilised is often desirable or requested in some industries. Developing for the embedded market myself, we often have to stick to C99 to ensure compatibility with whatever ancient compiler a costumer or even chipset vendor may still be running.
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