On 2017-10-12 14:01, Stefan Ram wrote: > Many of the quotations are from the previous decade.
Thanks Stefan, that was fun. > I must say that C++ has improved in this decade (the 2010s), > and there also is a rennaisance of C and C++ (compared to > "coffee languages") usage because single-thread processor > speeds do not grow anymore ("the free lunch is over") and so > in the 2010s C and C++ are more valued as efficiency > languages (also saving energy in the data centers). This is precisely the motivation of languages like Rust, Go and (in a way) Julia: "C++ is horrid, but C is a slog. Python is too slow for [insert specific use case]. There has to be a better way!" -- Thomas Jollans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list