给 iPhone 举办葬礼的微软，图片来自 Rare Historical Photos更致命的是节奏问题。Windows Phone 7 在 2010 年才发布。那时 iOS 已经迭代了三年，Android 也进入高速扩张期。微软不是慢了一小步，而是直接错过了起跑线。当 iOS 推出 Siri（2011），Android 推出 Google Now（2012）时，Cortana 要到 2014 年才姗姗来迟。在移动互联网的时代「快」未必一定赢，但「慢」几乎一定输。
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If you’ve ever written a parser for C, you’ll know the most annoying part is the ambiguities. A well-designed language should let users map their high-level, abstract intentions to concrete constructs while expressing them with as little typing as possible. For that to happen, the language constructs need to be expressive and flexible, and their grammar should ideally be simple and context-free. Ambiguities undermine this, and unfortunately, C is full of them, from declarations to expressions.
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