10 Jul
2007
10 Jul
'07
4:20 p.m.
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 21:02:45 Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
While I personally think that the productivity argument should be enough to "make the switch", the killer-app (the app that will kill C, that is :-)) is concurrency. C is just not a tractable tool to program highly concurrent programs, unless the problem happens to be highly amenable to concurrency (web servers etc.). We need *something* else. It may not be Haskell, but it will be something (and it will probably be closer to Haskell than C!).
As long as your C-killer language has a run-time that is written in C, it won't be killing C. :-) -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. The OCaml Journal http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_journal/?e