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		orvado on April 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) Does anyone understand what the author meant by the following statement: ${lang} is the language of the future This looks like a macro for substitution, but maybe its some hip new term I've never encountered. An actual language or just a placeholder for a language that hasn't been chosen yet?

noobiemcfoob on April 11, 2014 [–]

I think he means to imply that whoever is making the statement would substitute ${lang} with their language of choice as the successor of C.

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