Which would all be a rounding area if C gets to take credit for everything produced using it.
To quote Sean Connery in The Rock:
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen!
So we know there are other ways, we used systems with zero lines of C into them.
The prom queen came naked offering herself to everyone and the party was done for the other folks.
If you are old enough to remember those days, then you remember COBOL, Algol, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, Ada, Oberon, Lisp/Scheme, Forth, O’Caml etc. They’re all great languages, some still have their uses. There’s a reason all of the major operating systems have cores written in C/C++. It’s entirely because they’re pragmatic and “work”, and not some conspiracy.
Edit: although now that I write it, what if C/C++ was planted on earth by an alien intelligence in order to slow down the development of the human race.
Thankfully governments have finally start paying attention regarding software liability.
And we'll see a great slowdown in the software industry.
The industry has miseducated them, and now it is finally happening, software products aren't a special snowflake.
Digital stores with returns, consulting contracts with warranty clauses with fixes at the expense of provider, and naturally cyber security bills.
Move fast and break things only works due to lack of liability.
Government regulations practically place an infinity price on selected characteristics. The result is less entrants in the market, less competition and naturally worse results across all parameters.
Occasionally the market isn't able to reach the optimal goal without some extra help.
No one cares about your code.
Right, because that's a one-bit truth value, not a scalar. The slope doesn't matter, it just has to be positive. Everything is so simple!
There's no such thing as high margins, or success in degrees.
Is there something adding friction to the process of making software/food/cars? Well, is it adding enough friction to make our profits go negative? No? Then literally no one cares.
No misogyny needed.
Guess where I'm taking that prom queen analogy
2) The proportion of prom queen fuckers among systems programming experts is probably much lower than among the general population.
3) The real Unix philosophy is a perverse form of "worse is better", i.e., it prefers making it easy to slap together something that kinda sorta works without worrying about "edge cases" that people are likely to run into, over crafting a reasonably complete, responsible solution. C is the result of this philosophy applied to language design. If it hadn't been for Unix becoming ubiquitous, we wouldn't have made that disastrous choice.
(Come to think of it, under this rubric, Electron is a Unix philosophy exemplar.)
Your calibration is off: he wasn’t trying to put-Chad him.. he was telling him to “git gud”
As for "is woke", I have no idea how to read that point.
No, C was really the only available systems options. C and C++.
>Tinder is irrelevant. The winners are the people who eventually she chooses.
In the dating market today, tinder has created essentially a shit show for males. With that much choice and selection female hypegamy becomes expressed to the max. The top 80% of the top females match with the top 20% of males; It has never been this way for most of humanity. Even the top female always had a limited pool to choose from and her feelings would naturally calibrate to that fact. With tinder everything changed. You get the top tier males having a lot of fun and never settling down, while the rest just give up. That's hook up culture for you.
C would NEVER have been chosen if there were more options.
>As for "is woke", I have no idea how to read that point.
It's the same thing. Wokeness is the result of more womens' rights. Historically, all women couldn't be as selective as they are now because they couldn't hunt for food or work corporate jobs. Survival depended on them finding a man. This is no longer the case and is responsible for much greater female selectivity.
Again C succeeded because of very few alternative options and necessity.
Anyway I can see why you or other people missed the analogy. You have to be familiar with the modern dating game AND familiar with what programming was like 20-30 years ago. Most people capable of even making the comparison have been out of the game for ages.
The state of programming languages that are chosen today is very very much like the hookup culture of today. Especially on the front end, the front end is a woke prom queen for sure.
That's throwing the baby with the bathwater :-(