* Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com [2012-05-19 18:50]:
Or still using it, basically unchanged, as our primary system
programming language in 2012.
Indeed: why oh why… One has to wonder.
On 19 May 2012, at 21:38, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com [2012-05-19 18:50]:
Or still using it, basically unchanged, as our primary system
programming language in 2012.
Indeed: why oh why… One has to wonder.
Just to play the devil sitting on the devil's
On 2012-05-18, at 15:07, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Bagging on C is like bagging on Shakespeare. They were severely limited in
hardware, didn't have a whole lot of prior art to go on and not a whole lot of
people to talk to about it. Smalltalk, ML, Pascal, Prolog, Lisp and SQL all
came out about
On 2012-05-19, at 11:43, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Or still using it, basically unchanged, as our primary system programming
language in 2012.
Yeh, it really sucks that in 50 years nobody has ever been able to develop a
genuinely better alternative.
On 2012.5.19 1:46 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
Smalltalk came out ten years later.
Smalltalk was in production in 72 making it a contemporary with C. Smalltalk
80 was the first released version, roughly coinciding with the KR book. And
Simula had all the trappings of a modern OO language (and a
On 2012.5.15 1:41 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Otherwise I haven't come across this problem in other major languages...
except maybe C. And original C has so many design flaws that the list would
become useless.
You will have to back that up somehow, laddie. And get offa my lawn.
I've
* Greg McCarroll g...@mccarroll.org.uk [2012-05-19 23:00]:
Lisp machines[1] didn't exactly take off. C++/STL didn't have anyone
build upon it for other languages significantly (i'm sure i'm about to
be proven wrong here) , just for sheer mischief i'll mention Topaz[2].
Bagging on C as a
