Friday, April 30, 2010

Congratulations to C

The C programming language has returned to the No.1 spot for April 2010, leaving Java in second place and C++ in 3rd. Although this has happened for a number of reasons, it still shows the popularity and power of C. It's been over 35 years since C was developed at AT&T Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan and others and yet it's still here as strong as ever.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still a big Java fan and have been using it commercially since 1997 but I always have a soft spot for C as it's the first commercial programming language I used and I still believe has the most power and flexibility.

Here is the TIOBE list for April 2010.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Martin Rees Addresses Melbourne University on Life & The Cosmos

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Unweaving the Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
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