Matthew Garrett@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.
jwz@jwz@mastodon.social
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer Dooming us all to inhuman toil for The One whose name cannot be expressed in signed char.
