On: Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

[zeroc8]

And yet a lot of modern software is written in it and people seem to be happy using it. Let the music do the talking.

[guappa → zeroc8]

This exact comment could have been written 10 years ago about C and 15 years ago about visual basic.

[unscaled → guappa]

And before that FORTRAN, COBOL and Assembly.

[dualogy → guappa]

That's not even the same ballpark. C is timelessness itself. The comment could have been written 30 years ago, or 30 years hence. Nice try!

[pjmlp → dualogy]

Had it not been for UNIX being free beer on its early decade, and C would have hardly made a mark on the computing world.

[pjmlp → zeroc8]

Many of us use Go, because we have to.

Besides being a saner alternative to C in regards to userspace stuff, and also bare metal stuff (for the belivers in automatic memory management), there isn't much else about it in language features to call home about.