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		vorador on June 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someday we will all program in Python C is portable assembly, I see no reason for it to disappear, and actually it would bother me to have to write low-level stuff in python.

scott_s on June 22, 2009 [–]

I agree. While some languages go extinct, their domains remain. As we progress in computing and how to express it, we expand the domains that we program in.

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