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Re:I love coding in C by flavio81 on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:48AM (#21891938)
>The language hasn't evolved for the same reason a transistor hasn't evolved: because it didn't need to.

That's what you think. Transistors have evolved a lot, as have programming languages.

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Re:I love coding in C by squarefoot on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:25PM (#21892637)
I meant functionally, ie what a single part (bjt, jfet, mosfet etc) can do. of course there are better materials and ways to produce more advanced parts.
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