mos_8502 :verified: on Nostr: Instead of telling people to abandon C and C++ for supposedly "safe" languages that ...
Instead of telling people to abandon C and C++ for supposedly "safe" languages that *will* be abandoned by their owners the minute they're no longer profitable or the next new shiny language fad comes along, why not teach people how to write C and C++ *correctly*?
You can't make bad programmers write good code by changing the language.
Not that it matters. Probably 95% of the software being written today shouldn't be written at all. The industry likes to re-solve the same 20 or so problems every five years. How many times has IRC been reinvented? How many times with Usenet? Hell, the modern obsession with web apps is just a marginally more successful version of the old promise of Java apps "write once, run anywhere" bollocks that polluted computing for a decade -- only worse, because now the app isn't even running on your device, it's running on a private server you can't touch, and will disappear when the company folds, gets bought out, or gets bored.
You can't make bad programmers write good code by changing the language.
Not that it matters. Probably 95% of the software being written today shouldn't be written at all. The industry likes to re-solve the same 20 or so problems every five years. How many times has IRC been reinvented? How many times with Usenet? Hell, the modern obsession with web apps is just a marginally more successful version of the old promise of Java apps "write once, run anywhere" bollocks that polluted computing for a decade -- only worse, because now the app isn't even running on your device, it's running on a private server you can't touch, and will disappear when the company folds, gets bought out, or gets bored.