You are joking. Aren't you? That's not the sense, I think that you are not pointing to where article is doing. With fair reasons many people is making eulogies to something that transcended. Dennis Ritchie let a legacy which is impossible to deny. Today's software is not Fortran descendant is C descendant. I think that's the sense. No body is telling or asking if C is perfect. To say that programming languages had to be better this way or that way is a good and interesting question but doesn't change current programming languages state. If you let me say a metaphor; I am here thanks to a some rare structure appeared 3500 millions years ago: a Prokariotic cell that contained DNA freely flowing in the citoplams. Why nucleotides?. Wasn't better other kind of structure. Why Adenine, why Guanine. Why diphosphate. Will Structure and Function of ancient ADN emerged 3500 millions years ago be responsible of cancer that with high probabilities will kill me some day? (attending to familiar history. Just an example). They are questions that really don't matter (even if cancer actually will kill me). Is the legacy from C to Java or C++ or PHP responsable of problems that programmers have when are trying to code?. If today's software were Fortran descendant, software were better? No more than the kind of questions made for Albert Camus if were alive.
¿Why something emerged this way and not than that way? 2011/10/15 Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> > How did Dennis Ritchie's death make C a wonderful language? > > *-- Russ Abbott* > *_____________________________________________* > *** Professor, Computer Science* > * California State University, Los Angeles* > > * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 > Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ > * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ > *_____________________________________________* > > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Alfredo Covaleda < > alfredocoval...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nice article >> >> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/ >> >> -- >> Alfredo >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Alfredo
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