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