Re:Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Mer...
by woodruffw on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:18PM
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> I don't understand the "it's old therefore bad" argument.
It's a bad argument, and it's not the argument the person you're replying to is making.
C is bad for reasons that are mostly disconnected to its age. Better languages were written in the 1960s and 1970s, and worse languages are written today. What the GP is saying is that C has not meaningfully improved over the last half century.
It's a bad argument, and it's not the argument the person you're replying to is making.
C is bad for reasons that are mostly disconnected to its age. Better languages were written in the 1960s and 1970s, and worse languages are written today. What the GP is saying is that C has not meaningfully improved over the last half century.