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 28112 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2021 23:33:23 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Jul 2021 23:33:23 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 613619CA4C; Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:33:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467D09C9F1; Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:32:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D34E69C9F1; Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:32:14 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 474 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:32:13 AEST Received: from clarinet.employees.org (clarinet.employees.org [198.137.202.74]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3DC99C9F0 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:32:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: by clarinet.employees.org (Postfix, from userid 1736) id 5EE3B4E11BEB; Sun, 4 Jul 2021 23:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:24:18 +0100 From: Derek Fawcus To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Message-ID: References: <20210702213648.GW817@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: [TUHS] Is C obsolete? (was Re: [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view) 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 05:49:57PM +0200, Andy Kosela wrote: > They also think that C is obsolete I'd not say it is obsolete, but despite it having been my main language for the last 30 years, these days I would be inclined to restrict the range of new tasks I'd use it for. So in thinking of how to solve certain problems, I'd split a subset of the problem in to something in C, and the rest in to another language - probably Go. That may simply reflect the nature of the problems I tackle, I can imagine that others might not merit any use of C. DF