From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 27512 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2020 15:53:00 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Jun 2020 15:53:00 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 14B299C6FC; Mon, 8 Jun 2020 01:52:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B887B93D56; Mon, 8 Jun 2020 01:52:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 3DCFE93D56; Mon, 8 Jun 2020 01:52:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE30493D52 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2020 01:52:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id A621235E12D; Sun, 7 Jun 2020 08:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 08:52:39 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Clem Cole Message-ID: <20200607155239.GL1635@mcvoy.com> References: <8b8d2ff3ed704c5631997387bf78e9b7@firemail.de> <202006070557.0575vkwU011918@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 11:26:45AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > That said, I personally am the most excited about Go theses day, but I'm > also thinking Rust looks pretty interesting, but my experience with both > compared to C is extremely nominal. Neither language is used for anything > in production in our world at this point. If I had to move to a modern language it would be Go. I looked at Rust and barfed. But if I had the juice, I'd just evolve C. Make a C+ that isn't object oriented but does have some of the stuff that modern languages have. I'd pretty much take http://little-lang.org and evolve C to that.