Comment by kragen
Python probably is not suitable for any project that you want to retain value for 10 years or more; the community has a policy against maintaining backward compatibility.
Python probably is not suitable for any project that you want to retain value for 10 years or more; the community has a policy against maintaining backward compatibility.
So I will stick with C. Recently, when I updated my very old knowledge, I noticed that C23 is actually pretty nice. It adds proper Unicode support, typeof and constexpr style keywords, improved atomics, and even better support for inline functions and generics.
That is also why in TAOCP, Don Knuth used MIX (and later MMIX) to keep the book language agnostic and timeless. Before Knuth's birthday next year, I am hoping to finish most of the exercises in TAOCP.