Making Windows 8 work

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Flint

It's because the new kid coders don't want to learn the fundamentals of the 'old-fashioned' language an 'old-fashioned' OS was written in. Imagine that all major software releases are being written by your idiot 12 year-old nephew, and that's about how it works.

Operating Systems are still written in C dialects. Lots of applications are written in them, like every iOS application (either directly or through a translation layer). Lots of people still learn them as new programmers. Lots of veterans are still using them. Or maybe you are talking about really old-fashioned like Lisp machines or mainframes?

Language is not the factor. It is a much more complex, and very human, problem.