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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 06:45:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wo7k4moks.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230721223017.GA25639@mcvoy.com> (Larry McVoy's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:30:17 -0700")

Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'm not the last guy who wants to use C for serious work.

I'm using many diffent languages for many things.  But when I write
stuff that I'm humbly HOPING will be useful, say, 30 years from now, I
pick C.  It seems to me it's likely it will stick around, close to its
current form, a long time from now.  I don't think I could make that bet
on other languages that are popular now, either due to the language
itself being in flux, or its libraries, ecosystem, etc.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-22  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-21 18:53 [TUHS] " Rich Morin
2023-07-21 22:14 ` [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:30   ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 22:33     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:39       ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 23:39     ` Steve Nickolas
2023-07-22  4:37       ` John Cowan
2023-07-22  1:48     ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-07-22  1:55     ` Jon Forrest
2023-07-22  6:45     ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2023-07-22 14:54 ` Rich Salz
2023-07-22 15:24   ` Warner Losh
2023-07-22 16:12     ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2023-07-22 20:52   ` Dave Horsfall
2023-07-30 17:33 Douglas McIlroy
2023-07-30 18:22 Norman Wilson
2023-07-30 21:43 ` Rob Pike
2023-07-30 23:34   ` George Michaelson
2023-07-30 23:59     ` Erik E. Fair
2023-07-31  0:26       ` Warner Losh
2023-07-31 22:57         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-31 23:05           ` Warner Losh
2023-08-01  2:45             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01  1:51         ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01  2:47           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01  3:20           ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-07-31  0:41       ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-01  9:22       ` Marc Donner
2023-08-01 10:58         ` Erik E. Fair
2023-08-02  0:37           ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-02 14:52             ` Ron Natalie
2023-08-02 21:14               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:20                 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:37                   ` Warner Losh
2023-08-02 23:49                   ` Rich Salz
2023-08-02 23:33               ` Dave Horsfall

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