[pohl]

That makes it sound as if a modern language sans the baggage of C was not needed. It was.

[mpweiher]

Hmmm...to me it makes it sound like a modern language without the baggage of C was and is needed, but Swift is not that language.

[pohl]

[language] does not solve [problems not solved by languages].

Film at 11.

[mpweiher]

Welcome to Tautology Club! If Tautology Club is the sort of thing you like, you will like Tautology Club. Alternatively, you will find that you like Tautology Club if that is the sort of thing you like.

In other news, you might have checked some of the other posts here that explain why some of these problems are, or at the very least can be language problems, before letting loose the snark.

For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8377860

[pohl]

"My smartphone didn't palliate my hemmoroids" is no tautology.

[mpweiher]

But "[language does not solve] [problems not solved by languages]" is.

[pohl]

Your opinion fails to shorten my daily commute – which is the truly pressing concern.

[nbevans]

Your example is a link to yourself and two footnotes that link to articles written by yourself. Are you a joker?