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I don't know what the systems programming language of the 22nd century will look like, but I do know that it will be called C.

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On UNIX yes, it will never change, C is married to UNIX and no alternative will ever change that.

On other OSes, it really depends on how Apple, Google and Microsoft do their work of "our way or the highway" regarding pushing their safe alternatives.

When you consider how truly distant into the future -- in technological time frame -- 2100 is, you can wonder if Unix will even be around at that time. 2100 is double the lifetime of Unix from now.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has an interesting point that for human creations the expected lifespan is the same as their previous life[1]. If a book is read 10 years after it's published, you can expect that it will be read for another 10 years.

So for C this would be 44 more years from now, but it gets another extra year for every year it survives, so it isn't far fetched to think C will be around in 2100.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

C already survived 44 years, so only 84 to go :)

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