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1. One Response to “In my day C was the programming language of choice in industry, what is the “C” of today?”

2. Programming today is like SF fandom in the seventies, as Comic Books, Dark Shadows Star Trek and Star Wars grew their own fandoms and the number of people who liked that stuff made the small communities impossible.

   only has the programming community really grown exponentially but so many technologies have matured that you have thousands of people with similar training working on radically different projects.

   embedded systems, C.

   can't do anything in another language with more, sometimes way too much, overhead.

   web apps and other cross platform apps, often as not Java. It's a good choice.

   and more Linux users are appearing, and of course the Mac's resurgance under the New Steve Jobs means the return of Object C.

   Gates has his own Object C C# which is useful mainly for the Windows operating system. It's part of their dotNet environment, which has been ported to Linux as Mono and predictably makes Linux crash a lot, so needless to say as a Linux user I HATE it.

   Basic has altered horribly but it's still around, again in their dotNet environment.

   in Open Source there is C/C++, python, ruby, Ruby on Rails, and old standbyes like awk. I even meet a Lisp hacker from time to time.

   Industry can't come to a consensus any more because it is too diffuse.

   By jplatt39 on Jun 29, 2008

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