The C is dead, long live the C

[hanasaki]

Mainframes running NFS make nice disk servers :)

Adam Turk wrote:
>>Consider this, though.  Large numbers of programmers program in C
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> today.  It's
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>>definitely not dead in that sense.
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> Yes. No one, I believe, will contend that point.
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>>If you consider change a measure of life, Lisp ought to be the winner. 
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> It
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>>certainly has more mutations than any other base language, by quite a
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> margin.
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>>Arguably it's struggling, though.  Unfortunately.
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> Hmm... from looking at your posts, you must be a Lisp man.
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>>>C is arguably the one language we cannot let go of.
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>>Don't forget FORTRAN and COBOL.  :-(
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>>(and we'll never be rid of Visual Basic)
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> Maybe I'm an idealist, but one day, all old mainframes will be suddenly
> struck with a bout of entropy and turn to dust.
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>>>From it springs all other contemporary languages.
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>>If you consider "all" to mean Java, C++, and Db.
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> Ok. Qualification: All could mean: csh, C++, Java(Script), Perl (and
> thereby, many others), PHP, and C#(the devil's langauge)
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> Adam
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> 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".
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