I was reading this article earlier today linked from slashdot. C made the list.
6. C programming
As the Web takes over, C languages are also becoming less relevant, according to Padveen. "C++ and C Sharp are still alive and kicking, but try to find a basic C-only programmer today, and you'll likely find a guy that's unemployed and/or training for a new skill," he says.
That, in my opinion, is ridiculous on quite a few levels... first off, not only are some companies still asking for software to be written in C, but even after they aren't, there will be tons of it in circulation for years to be updated and maintained. Secondly, I don't know a single C programmer that is "training for a new skill" as if to say the only thing they've ever known is C and immediately rush to learn something new once they get laid off.
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C is the mother of C# and C++, so it will never phase out. I know people who code in COBOL and Fortran. Every language has a use. Nothing is ever outdated,
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True, even Fortran is still being maintained! New compilers and such come out every year or so...
Can't wait for Fortran 2008!
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As if the Web is only target for Commarcial Applications... lol
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Maybe it's not just commercial apps, but embedding programming as a whole: robots, Electric doors, clocks, car radios, and elevators, to name a few, must now really be enjoying the benefit of being programmed with Internet-ready browsers as a standard.Originally Posted by vart
"My web page looks SWEET in LED!"
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Isn't PHP and a raft of other so-called web languages based on C, i.e. they lift most of the stdlib?
Do me a favour.
Nasa's rovers (still operational) on Mars are driven (navigation) by software written in c++. I'd hardly call the c language dead.
Actually they tend to use Python now.
'based' yes, written in too! So I assume they'd be 'wrapping' a lot of the standard library functions.
So take C away, kiss PHP good-bye, along with a lot of C-based web browsers. Now we just have to wait until someone tries to create an OS in PHP :\
My dad programs in dying skill #1 there. There's still room for it around.
Also, coming from slashdot I'm a little bummed BSD's not on that list
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Dude, my boss insists me programming in c because he said it was the most portable code that can be used by the engineers. So I don't think that c is one of the dying languages. The people that I am working with (mostly masters and PH.Ds) made a bet at which one would fall out first, C or C#. Trust me, they think C# would phase out before C does.
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It's true! C is DEAD, you're all wasting your time!
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Of course I do.
Yup! In the future there's only one thing on a computer - the browser. MS will release a ring0 browser/OS!
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People need to stop taking Slashdot articles so seriously. I've seen so many articles so incredibly far from the truth and laughed as I read in the comments at how all the slashdot users just buy it and argue over it. Half the time the sites that the articles link to are in whole unreliable and never base anything on proper sources. I'm still giggling over the article that stated the brain used neurotic sound waves to communicate with itself based on a breakthrough Dutch study which all the users blindly soaked up.
In terms of C being dead/rapidly dying, google "most popular programming languages", and then consider if you really believe what that woman who thinks she's a New York Times visionary journalist has to say. Most of the results I personally found on google provided information regarding all the methods and techniques they used to find their data. C, by itself, was among the top three for most of them as well, many times surpassing C++. And 'as the web takes over', C will grow with it. If I have to write any serious client/server applications in a language other than C/C++ I'll barf.
This article provided absolutely no sources besides a single quote from the 'CEO' of a spyware 'company' who said finding a programmer that specialized in C alone was a delicacy. She based everything on a scammer whose website I can't trust as far as I can throw. It's in no way a study, it's biased journalism.
