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Old 09-17-2013, 08:04 AM   #3
Perry Winkle
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
It's because the new kid coders don't want to learn the fundamentals of the 'old-fashioned' language an 'old-fashioned' OS was written in. Imagine that all major software releases are being written by your idiot 12 year-old nephew, and that's about how it works.
Operating Systems are still written in C dialects. Lots of applications are written in them, like every iOS application (either directly or through a translation layer). Lots of people still learn them as new programmers. Lots of veterans are still using them. Or maybe you are talking about really old-fashioned like Lisp machines or mainframes?

Language is not the factor. It is a much more complex, and very human, problem.
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