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10 years is _way_ too optimistic (Score:1)

by UmberGryphon (7140)

You honestly think that in a mere 10 years, it will be impossible to get a job as a C programmer? We'll have operating systems written in Haskell and word processors written in Erlang?
C was being used to write operating systems 33 years ago, and it's still going strong. There will always be a call for a language that lets you be somewhat platform-independent while still giving you the ability to get very close to the bare metal.
There is a place for functional programming--many places, as a matter of fac
- Re:10 years is _way_ too optimistic (Score:1)
  
  by chromatic (983) on 2006.08.02 21:57 (#49157) Homepage Journal
  
  It doesn't seem too far off to me. Bare metal gets further and further from the PDP-11 every day.
  
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