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A comment on The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011).

Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by orvado on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:29PM (#7574247)
Does anyone understand what the author meant by the following statement:

${lang} is the language of the future

This looks like a macro for substitution, but maybe its some hip new term I've never encountered. An actual language or just a placeholder for a language that hasn't been chosen yet?

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Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by noobiemcfoob on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:39PM (#7574303)
I think he means to imply that whoever is making the statement would substitute ${lang} with their language of choice as the successor of C.
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