On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Greg Comeau <comeau@panix.com> wrote:

In article <3096bd910909020751o12086713m4291e2f1b77daf8f@mail.gmail.com>,
Rodolfo kix <kix@kix.es> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM, ron minnich<rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Q: "Will C continue to be important into the future?"
>> (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: "No, I think C will die like Fortran has"
>
>I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
>and possibly program, of all time.
>(Bill Gates, OS/2 Programmers Guide, November 1987)
>
>... we are all human ...
>
>:-)

When push comes the shove, these are probably both said in the
same spirit (I doubt Kirk feels C will die, nor Gates that
OS/2 was such (nor that MS products have no bugs))....

If I recall correctly, conspiracy theorists might even claim that Microsoft was singing the praises of OS/2 while simultaneously putting more effort into NT. Note that Microsoft was working on OS/2 for IBM at the time, and probably consciously chose to make NT win that battle.

I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm saying others *have* said so.

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