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21st century calling

Name: Anonymous 2015-05-03 7:00

Why are you still coding in unsafe, primitive languages such as C and C++, both are more than 30-40 years old?
There is like zero type safety or even guarantees it works right after compiling. You could be corrupting your memory right and left and never know that as long as it compiles.

Name: Anonymous 2015-05-03 16:47

>>15
Dethroning C/epples will take decades even if some magical lang fixes all problems,running faster than C.
Even with games and OSes switching from C/epples, C/epples will be improved by getting new compiler upgrades/standards and developers could switch back.
Lets say Ada suddenly got major upgrades that would put it on par with C++, do people start migrating to it? No, they'll wait for new Ada to stabilize/get implemented, benchmark it, test it, debate it etc.
It would have to be clearly superior in all aspects to switch. All talk about safety and correctness wouldn't cut. Realistically Pascal family(Ada,FreePascal,Oberon) are the only non-C languages that can evolve into a C contender in the future because they don't depend on C/C++ codebases and are simple enough to program/read/port/etc for all architectures.

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