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- From: a1s@ix.netcom.com (Andrew Snyder)
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- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:05:31 GMT
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- Andrew T. Finnell <73627.2516@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
-
- > Hello all fellow C/C++ programmers.
- >
- > I'd like your opinion on a subject. I recently had a
- >argument with one of my friends and he says that C sucks and
- >people shouldn't be programming in it and it's more of a hassel to
- >program in.
- --snip
-
- Of course C will be replaced, if by 'replaced' you mean that a larger
- percentage of people will be using something else. Just as it is no
- longer necessary to know assembly to make a living as a programmer, it
- will soon be possible to make a living as a programmer knowing nothing
- but some script language.
-
- As computer science continues to mature, and becomes more of a
- science, we should expect increased specialization. I'm willing to
- bet that general purpose script languages like perl, tcl, or (your
- favorite here) that don't depend on hardware at all will eventually be
- used to do the bulk of development.
-
- Somebody will have to be able to write/maintain whatever language that
- is, however. And that will probably be done in C or C++. Somebody
- else will have to write the compiler and libraries that imagined
- language is compiled in. Then there is that pesky kernel.... I really
- should learn assembly one of these days.
-
- If you don't bother to learn C, you'll wish you did.
-
- Andrew Snyder
- a1s@ix.netcom.com
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