From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 05:54:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BFC106564A for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147BB8FC1D for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.44]) by qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id XHtX1f0070x6nqcA2HukLW; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:54:44 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id XHui1f0071f6R9u8YHujbp; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:54:44 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:54:42 -0800 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:54:42 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101115055442.GA58476@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h+K92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org> <20101114214141.GD50560@guilt.hydra> <20101114223932.GA10006@thought.org> <20101115002910.GA51179@guilt.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101115002910.GA51179@guilt.hydra> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: Vim 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:54:45 -0000 On Sun 14 Nov 2010 at 16:29:10 PST Chad Perrin wrote: >On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> >> About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine >> effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into >> C++. Figured since C++ was "_the_ new language" that it was a >> good move. Then I realized how you could spend a lifetime >> learning C++ I backed off and kept it simple. > >Hardly new. It hasn't been the Next Big Thing since the '80s. Java was >the Next Big Thing in the '90s. We don't exactly have a new Next Big >Thing for the '00s, from what I can see -- and maybe that's a good I'd say the "Next Big Thing" in the '00s was Python ... or was it XML? BTW, it's now the '10s. ;-)