On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 18:17, Toby Thain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > And I have had earnest youngsters on Twitter and elsewhere very > > seriously tell me that _no_ language could even theoretically be > > immune to the problems of C, because _all_ languages are implemented > > in C at the lowest level. > > You understand that this is absolute rubbish, right?
Examples... "Almost all of these better languages are implemented in C, your OS likely usese a lot of C or a language that is heavily inspired by/built upon C. Perhaps it is not the language that is the problem when you're having trouble with it." "So, I'm curious what are these so called better languages, and what were they built on seeing as it couldn't have been any modern operating system that I could find." Sometimes I despair... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
