Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:54:42 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) Message-ID: <20101115055442.GA58476@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20101115002910.GA51179@guilt.hydra> References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h%2BK92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org> <20101114214141.GD50560@guilt.hydra> <20101114223932.GA10006@thought.org> <20101115002910.GA51179@guilt.hydra>
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On Sun 14 Nov 2010 at 16:29:10 PST Chad Perrin wrote: >On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> >> About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine >> effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into >> C++. Figured since C++ was "_the_ new language" that it was a >> good move. Then I realized how you could spend a lifetime >> learning C++ I backed off and kept it simple. > >Hardly new. It hasn't been the Next Big Thing since the '80s. Java was >the Next Big Thing in the '90s. We don't exactly have a new Next Big >Thing for the '00s, from what I can see -- and maybe that's a good I'd say the "Next Big Thing" in the '00s was Python ... or was it XML? BTW, it's now the '10s. ;-)
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