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A comment on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009). Parent comment

Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by pjmlp on Sunday September 13, 2020 @07:06AM (#24460043)
Except Fortran 2018 is quite modern, supports modules, generics, and even OOP, first class support on CUDA alongside C++, whereas C18 hardly changed since C89 besides some cosmetic stuff and it is as secure as when it got used to rewrite UNIX in the early 70s.
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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by estebank on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:18PM (#24462368)
It could be argued though that less usage means fewer stake holders to convince of the need for specific changes to the language, which helps with increased evolution. (I have only cursory knowledge of what's happening in C and none about what's happening in Pascal nowadays, just pointing out that being a smaller community might ironically help the language).
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