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A comment on Ask HN: Do you think we need to keep evolving programming languages?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you think we need to keep evolving programming... by boznz on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:56PM (#22912497)
Maybe I am wrong but there is nothing that can be done today that could not be done in a 30 year old language. I am certainly glad IDEs have evolved though
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Re:Ask HN: Do you think we need to keep evolving programming... by AnimalMuppet on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:18PM (#22912645)
Anything could have been done in 30-year-old languages. Take, for instance, pre-STL C++. (The STL came out in 1993-4). You can do anything in it. But using the STL is a whole lot nicer than having to write all that by hand, and has fewer bugs to boot. Then you've got C+11/14, which is much improved.

So, your point is correct, and yet there is real improvement.

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