The C is dead, long live the C

[Adam Turk]

>Consider this, though.  Large numbers of programmers program in C
today.  It's
>definitely not dead in that sense.

Yes. No one, I believe, will contend that point.

>If you consider change a measure of life, Lisp ought to be the winner. 
It
>certainly has more mutations than any other base language, by quite a
margin.
>Arguably it's struggling, though.  Unfortunately.

Hmm... from looking at your posts, you must be a Lisp man.

>> C is arguably the one language we cannot let go of.

>Don't forget FORTRAN and COBOL.  :-(

>(and we'll never be rid of Visual Basic)

Maybe I'm an idealist, but one day, all old mainframes will be suddenly
struck with a bout of entropy and turn to dust.

>> From it springs all other contemporary languages.

>If you consider "all" to mean Java, C++, and Db.

Ok. Qualification: All could mean: csh, C++, Java(Script), Perl (and
thereby, many others), PHP, and C#(the devil's langauge)

Adam

I'm quite flattered, actually by the amount of thread, friend and flame
alike that my original comments spawned. Thanx to all. I'll publish as
"All, et Adam".