alt Hacker NewsIt seems like the history of programming languages since the 1980s has mostly been people trying to avoid C++.
First languages with run-times and dynamic types, and more recently lower levels of abstraction (Go, Rust).
It seems like the history of programming languages since the 1980s has mostly been people trying to avoid C++.
First languages with run-times and dynamic types, and more recently lower levels of abstraction (Go, Rust).
I was there, and C++ was all over the place on Windows, OS/2, Mac OS, UNIX/CORBA.
It was FOSS with its set of coding guidelines, that gave C a new wind.
Languages with runtimes and dynamic types go all the way back to Lisp and Smalltalk.