Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Adam Shaikh wrote:
>> "Brandon J. Van Every" <try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname@yahoo.com>

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> "Being the norm" is exactly the opposite of "being competitively
> advantageous." Once programmers with a given language skill are a
> dime a dozen, there's no competitive advantage in knowing that
> language anymore. There might be a competitive advantage of being a
> Guru of the language, if the language is sufficiently complex to
> warrant Gurus. But there are no C Gurus as far as commerce is
> concerned.

Nobody is born "being competitively advantageous". You have to start
somewhere, and nothing is wrong (that's how a lot of geniuses rise to fame)
from making a difference right in the middle of norm. C is still norm,
although what you say about the language itself is probably true.

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