the broken stuff is going to be abandonware soon IMHO
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Matlab is an unstoppable force at this point I'm afraid
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Really!? I've seen
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Languages take a LONG time to die. Exhibit A, FORTRAN. Exhibit B, C
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Cherry picking the ones that survived is not actually evidence language take a long time to die though.
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I dunno about you but when I did my compsci degree we learned so many from Ada to Scheme to C to Prolog. Some are dead.
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@DRMacIver but C = poops despite being immortal – taking long time to die isn't a good thing.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
I do think it's OK for people to like older languages FWIW. C has special problems but is sometimes still fine.
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C is the only realistic choice for low-level programming. I am just amazed people persist with it for science
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oh totally agreed. Still shocked when I return to my PhD lab & they're mocked for not using C if not using C.
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And yes I sadly used only C for 4-5 years to be cool with PI. Haha.
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