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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 06:07
Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

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C
absolutely
Or not.

C is becoming a dead language like Pascal, Fortran, Cobol and Basic, unless you count C++, C# and Objective-C as being C (which they are not).

Java is more widely used and popular. Python, Ruby, Javascript, PHP and SQL also give C a run for its money with Apple's Swift fast catching up.
I know it's not widely used professionally (I don't remember the last time I coded in C), but I presume a lot of developers know a thing or two of it... at least it's widely taught as an introductory language here. That's the impression I have, but who know's how it will be like in 50 years, everything is constantly changing!
Hmm, you are correct,Thumbs Up I was going by popularity and use (as an equivalence to "spoken") rather than "knowing" [I know some written French but I cannot speak it]. Even if you are never taught C you kinda know it by default. 

I presume we all know Basic and Pascal too to some extent as most programmers can adapt to other languages pretty easily, though would not necessarily be fluent in them. However, I suspect the days of teaching C as the precursor to learning Java and C++ object-oriented languages are numbered.
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^ I think learning C (or other similar languages) is important to learn, it's not as abstract as Java, I think it's easier to understand how things work, like memory management and arrays for example and being able to write more effective code. I had a problem yesterday in C# and solved it thanks to thinking in C Smile
I think it's more important than learning Assembly these days... but it was fun to code nevertheless, it's very old school Tongue
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Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 08:45
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

C
absolutely
Or not.

C is becoming a dead language


As long as the Linux kernel is written in C, C will never die.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 09:50
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

C
absolutely

Or not.

C is becoming a dead language


As long as the Linux kernel is written in C, C will never die.

sic transit gloria mundi
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Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 10:58
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

C
absolutely

Or not.

C is becoming a dead language


As long as the Linux kernel is written in C, C will never die.

sic transit gloria mundi


Quite, but everyone is too busy designing apps to invent the next great operating system.  Wink
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