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COBOL If ever there was a language that comes close to matching the more notorious aspects of C, COBOL is the most likely culprit. Coming about in the same era as the venerable FORTRAN, the two languages together ran on mainframes everywhere in the early days to mung through endless business data, speeding up calculations previously done by hand, all in the name of "the greater good". However, while their early goals…
I want to DO haskell!
Whoa, whoa. Who else is as powerful as Dumbledore, except arguably Voldemort (and possibly Harry when he's older)? It is not clear at all that Voldemort's more powerful than Dumbledore either -- their fight at the end of the Order of the Phoenix was very even. Dumbledore is the only wizard Voldemort was ever afraid of, and for good reason.
Let us consider Lisp. Lisp is powerful, elegant, relevant, and respected. Despite getting on in years, few can match Lisp's power. Lisp is kind and benevolent: to other languages Lisp has given conditionals, functions, and garbage collection. I say, Lisp is Dumbledore.
continues quietly making money with the language
> But Fortran is… uh… getting on in years, I suppose is the polite way to put it. I mean, there are plenty who will tell you it’s still capable of some amazing stuff… but then, what language isn’t? Whoa, whoa. Who else is as powerful as Dumbledore, except arguably Voldemort (and possibly Harry when he's older)? It is not clear at all that Voldemort's more powerful than Dumbledore either -- their fight at the end of t…
tldr: languages the author likes are good, languages the author doesn't like are bad.
I'm surprised that people consider C a dead language. C is very much one of the most used and needed language in the world, especially if the Internet of Things hype keeps on getting stronger. And of course all the current billions of lines of C didn't just disappear to be replaced by Python ( as much as I like Python). Your OS and core programs are still getting new versions from times to times, even if you don't di…
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C was supposed to be replaced by C++ a long time ago, but a lot of systems programmers, particularly in open source, have reverted back to vanilla C because C++ is too complicated or provides abstractions that are not needed for the problem. But on the Windows platform C++ has mostly replaced C, and on the Mac / OSX platform Objective-C has basically replaced C. There are a few other newer systems programming languag…
But it's just recently hit 1.0 As an alpha only. It's still much too unstable to be able to do anything serious with it.
No, it's powerful today. I'm writing 'serious' code with it. Just don't write production code with it because your code will have to do a LOT of maintenance to keep up with HEAD.