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Is Clojure the next C ?

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f0dder:
a 2048-core laptop sounds plain old lame to me.
-f0dder (December 13, 2011, 03:24 PM)
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And 640K of memory is all anyone will ever need.  ;D
-wraith808 (December 13, 2011, 03:58 PM)
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Stop perpetuating that false quote :)

Also, that situation today is vastly different from how things were back then. Yes, we have scalability issues on the back-end side of things that need to be fixed, but we're pretty well off on the end-user side of things, apart from a (relatively) few specialized niches.

wraith808:
Stop perpetuating that false quote :)
-f0dder (December 13, 2011, 04:27 PM)
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Yes, I know it's false, but it's never going away, so why not use it... it's hilarious!


Also, that situation today is vastly different from how things were back then. Yes, we have scalability issues on the back-end side of things that need to be fixed, but we're pretty well off on the end-user side of things, apart from a (relatively) few specialized niches.
-f0dder (December 13, 2011, 04:27 PM)
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Well, when you consider that one of the specialized niches is pr0n (VR)... and everyone knows that the internet is for porn...

Eóin:
It's worth noting that the new highly parallel future doesn't automatically need a new language. Indeed the current approach to utilizing the extra power offered by GPUs and the like is to stick with the old bare metal languages, e.g. CUDA and OpenCL are basically C programming.

Renegade:
Meh... Not sure.

Software languages (or many at least) have innovated with structures and logic expressions, but I think he's trying to point to something else. What that is? Well, not entirely sure. I think it's that lack of innovation/paradigm shift that he's talking about, and without it, it's kind of hard to point to.

At the heart of it, it seems to me that he wants a hardware agnostic language that uses all available resources.

For his comment:

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis tells us that our view of the world is strongly affected by the languages we use. When we think in a given language, that language acts as a filter. Concepts it can’t express are removed from our awareness. Our mode of expression constrains us to only those thoughts and concepts that can easily be expressed within it.
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Seems pretty reasonable to me. Seems to work in both human and machine languages from what I've seen.

Dunno. I don't need to really worry about any of that stuff. I'm just a small fry. It is interesting though.

Tuxman:
"The next C"? What's wrong with the existing C?

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