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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.dev · 3 months ago

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.dev · 3 months ago
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    I mean it’s never going to go away, because there has to be something to bootstrap all these newer languages from.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

    I absolutely agree that most normal programmers need to move away from C but it’s not going to go away anytime soon

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