C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Joakim]

On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 11:51:54 UTC, Jim Balter wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 July 2018 at 20:10:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/21/2018 11:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> My article C's Biggest Mistake on front page of 
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com !
>>
>> Direct link:
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585357
>
> The responses are not encouraging, but I suppose they're useful 
> for sociologists studying fallacious thinking.

In my experience, people never learn, even from the blatantly 
obvious, _particularly_ when they're invested in the outdated. 
What inevitably happens is the new tech gets good enough to put 
them out of business, then they finally pick it up or retire. 
Until most system software is written in 
D/Go/Rust/Swift/Zig/etc., they will keep mouthing platitudes 
about how C is here to stay.