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Starting a new OS in those languages today would be heavily questionable.
Same applies to C, 10 years younger than them, less capable in language security, in an highly connected world, yet people keep doing it.
The fact that you're unable to distinguish the difference means you're being purposefully obtuse and annoying or are simply naive.
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Same applies to C, 10 years younger than them, less capable in language security, in an highly connected world, yet people keep doing it.
You're really pettyfogging simply to be contrarian. C is a language with a large and active community, and is still the most common/popular language in its fields. Algol-68 and Fortran are not. It has nothing to do with age of the language and everything to do with modern-day usefilledness. The fact that you're unable to distinguish the difference means you're being purposefully obtuse and annoying or are simply naiv…
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He often posts here
That's true. And I liked his Zorland C compiler when it first came out and didn't cost a fortune to buy.
Zortech C++ was the first C++ compiler available for PCs. I bought it even though I had a Mac, and ran it in emulation, to learn C++. Apple had their AT&T Cfront-based MPW C++ compiler about half a year later I think.
Then Symantec acquired Zortech, and totally destroyed the compiler in version 6, immediately driving everyone to the new Metrowerks just as PowerPC came out.
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Same applies to C, 10 years younger than them, less capable in language security, in an highly connected world, yet people keep doing it.
You're really pettyfogging simply to be contrarian. C is a language with a large and active community, and is still the most common/popular language in its fields. Algol-68 and Fortran are not. It has nothing to do with age of the language and everything to do with modern-day usefilledness. The fact that you're unable to distinguish the difference means you're being purposefully obtuse and annoying or are simply naiv…
This part is really unnecessary. Parent is most likely not "unable to distinguish" and name calling poisons the air and cheapens your other point which I think is good.
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You're really pettyfogging simply to be contrarian. C is a language with a large and active community, and is still the most common/popular language in its fields. Algol-68 and Fortran are not. It has nothing to do with age of the language and everything to do with modern-day usefilledness. The fact that you're unable to distinguish the difference means you're being purposefully obtuse and annoying or are simply naiv…
> The fact that you're unable to distinguish the difference means you're being purposefully obtuse and annoying or are simply naive. This part is really unnecessary. Parent is most likely not "unable to distinguish" and name calling poisons the air and cheapens your other point which I think is good.
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You're really pettyfogging simply to be contrarian. C is a language with a large and active community, and is still the most common/popular language in its fields. Algol-68 and Fortran are not. It has nothing to do with age of the language and everything to do with modern-day usefilledness. The fact that you're unable to distinguish the difference means you're being purposefully obtuse and annoying or are simply naiv…
A usefulness out of historical accidents and sunken cost.