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I'm OK being left behind, thanks! (shkspr.mobi)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I’m the wrong person to ask. My goto language is older than I am and hasn’t had a meaningful change since I was born.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    cobol? fortran? c? assembly? so many options

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    C.

    I exaggerate a bit. C99 lets you declare variables anywhere inside the block, not just the top.

    Which still got me into an argument with a coworker who wanted me to declare every variable at the top of the block “in case” we port the code to a compiler that doesn’t support it.

    C99 was 20 years old at that point.

    Newer versions of C have generics “support” but I haven’t seen it in the wild yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Fortran has a 2018 release. Assembly is tied to the cpu, so I assume it changes every iteration.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I just consider it's origin to be ancient...

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