On Jan 28, 2008 9:52 PM, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shidan wrote: > > > That's the high level theory, in practice people like to write systems > > in C because: > > If I remember correctly all major operating systems currently in use > still coded in C, this includes linux and your BSDs and OSX, and I'm > pretty sure a good chunk of windows is C also.
Right. And they do so mostly for the three reasons mentioned. The only only other "practical" reason apart from them I can think of where you really need C still is in embedded projects where again pointer arithmetic really makes sense due to the types of processors used and memory constraints. Again it's about expressing data structures and algorithms and what makes sense for the job. Thats half true, things like tools and development environment together with the libraries that come along with the language matter just as much on a practical level. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
