I'm in violent agreement with anybody such as these researchers who contend that C needs to go. However, I really question the idea of trying ONCE AGAIN to replace C with an hitherto unknown or unused langauge. How many times do we need to try this before folks in academia clue in that it won't work? Listen - if C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, C-, J++ or any of the other millions of other languages derived from C haven't replaced it, why do we think "Ivy" will just brecause a few researchers at Berkeley say it's all the rage? And for those sticklers who say Java isn't derived from C: in questioning your assumption, I ask you to take a good hard look first at Java loops, arithmetic operators, and keywords; then compare those same artifacts to their cognates in a clearly non-C inspired language like Fortran.
Anyway, I'm not getting on the "new language" boat. Nope - not anymore.
Posted by Ed at June 6, 2005 09:02 AM