Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> I do dislike aspects of C/C++ as a language, but among the tools
>> currently available for this type of programming I see no serious
>> alternatives.
> 
> Exactly.  What we need is to have people complain every time they are forced
> to use C for such reasons.  It will take a while, but hopefully some day
> vendors will perceive enough pressure for something better than C that they
> are willing to innovate and provide it.

I don't think so. C/C++ is a local optimum:
- for students: learning C/C++
- for universities: teaching C/C++
- for companies: using C/C++
- for tool vendors: creating/selling C/C++ tools

Each of these contribute to the "lockup".

But this should not be a surprise. We live in a world of local optima: 
The PC keyboard, the Intel architecture, the imperial measurement 
system, the ASCII character set, etc.

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