State of D 2018 Survey

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 11:16:51 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 10:21:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>>
>> ...continue with C in the face of overwhelming evidence
>> it is the wrong thing to do.
>
> yeah, the health fanatics who promote their crap to goverments 
> and insurance agencies, use very similar arguments about sugar, 
> salt, alchohol, this and that....
>
> when really, it's all about moderation, not prohibition (or 
> increased taxes on things people say are bad).
>
> and science is so dodgy these days, that even scientific 
> evidence requires evidence.

No, it is about costs and saving people lives.

It is cheaper to prevent diseases than trying to cure them 
afterwards,
specially chronic ones that cause people's death.

Likewise, it is cheaper to prevent security exploits caused by 
memory corruption by not having them, instead of having to pay 
millions of dollars in compensation to everyone has was impacted 
by one.

>
> c rules!

Thanks to AT&T not being able to sell UNIX, giving it by a 
symbolic price for universities like Berkely, followed by a few 
startups like Sun and SGI basing their OS on it.

Had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX at the same price of VMS, OS/z 
and others, and C wouldn't rule anywhere.

And if you like C so much, what are you doing in a safe systems 
programming language forum?