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Re:Lost in Math by jcelerier on Sunday July 01, 2018 @07:49AM (#17435206)
> we have laptops with 32Gb memory, servers with 1/2 Tb and scores of Ghz cores - the need to write in C has disappeared for almost everyone.

I don't know in which weird world you live but most of the people I ship software to run 10 years old laptops or 10.6 / 10.7 macs. And even top of the line 2018 macbooks don't have options for more than 16G of RAM.

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Re:Lost in Math by Koshkin on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:26AM (#17435937)
Not only that, much of software developed today is targeting the cloud where resources are still very expensive.
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Re:Lost in Math by tryonqc on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @08:51AM (#17449704)
and those ressources are usually shared between systems!
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