45 years since its creation. The C language still very popular

Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by jhbadger on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:29PM (#11763576)

FORTRAN isn't the same language either. Much like LISP, it evolved over time. Things like line numbers and GOTO statements that made people hate the language are not really mandatory -- it is basically as structured as C these days.

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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by rootbear on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:36PM (#11764309)

Obligatory and relevant Hoare quote:

“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982.

Given how things turned out, he might have better said:

"I don't know what the language of the future will be called, but I know it will look like C."

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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by AlexeyBrin on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:16PM (#11764651)

In some ways Fortran is more advanced than C and even C++, e.g. had modules since Fortran 90, pure functions and so on ...

It is a very different language from the original Fortran.

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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:31PM (#11763606)

It's been evolving a lot. They're at least honest about that as they put the year after the Fortran type.

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