Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "C Is Obsolete" video.

From what I can tell, the only languages that ever go fully obsolete are ones that never caught on in the first place. There's still jobs for languages that "went obsolete" years ago, but are still being used in legacy applications because they can't justify rewriting the code in something more modern.
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@delicious_seabass There's that joke that not being satisfied with the number of people that he hurt with C, he went on to develop a pistol that only shoots backwards. I'd wager that a fair number of people did call, especially since computer science was so much less developed at the time.
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@mgord9518 I agree. Although, something being a bad language for beginners hasn't exactly hindered Python. Terrible error messages, dynamic typing and semantic white space are just bad design decisions to begin with, but foisting all of that on learners is asking for trouble. It's still better than starting out with old school BASIC, but not by much considering the length of time between the two.
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@hinzster Except that they're invisible and if you have something change the indentation it can be a lot of work to figure it out. Semantic white space is always a bad idea because you don't see it. White space is generally for the programmer, not the computer. The computer just needs enough white space to know where one term starts and the next one begins and sometimes that doesn't even require any whitespace at all.
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