Modern C and What We Can Learn from It [video]
Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU)<p>They should really just call themselves the ACU, they are wildly pro C++. It&#x27;s progress that there is even a C talk at all at their conference but even looking at the title it&#x27;s pitching itself at &quot;No really, C isn&#x27;t completely worthless&quot;<p>One day such language wars might seem quaint. While everyone has their livelihoods tied to their chosen technologies it probably won&#x27;t. C++ is fine imho fwiw. It&#x27;s just not anything like &quot;always and everywhere a better choice that C which should be treated as a virus.&quot;<p>The Scala folk are worst at it around here that I&#x27;ve seen but my experience may not be yours. People used to say similar of the LISP people on newsgroups. Perl was the first I saw where Larry and co. spent a lot of resource trying to make that not happen in the community. Python did a decent job following from what I&#x27;ve seen. C++ has always been pretty brutal in silly ways. I hope for it to calm down. Having one purely C talk at the conference of the Association of C and C++ users might be considered in some spheres to be &quot;progress of a sort.&quot;<p>edit: disclosure. I am a member of the ACCU.