Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:36:36 +0000, BCS wrote: > Hello Walter, > >> BCS wrote: >> >>> C is Latin, about 300 years ago: A dead language that no one uses but >>> everyone knows. >>> >> C is still in wide use. >> >> > OK I over stated. OTOH, Latin was in wide use (for some professions) 300 > years ago. > > I guess my point is that aside from VERY resource limited systems, > almost no one will have C as their first choice. Even with those limited > systems I'd bet that most people would rather be working in something > else if they could. That said, there are many places where it ends up > being the lingua franca.
If you ask this question from e.g. the linux kernel devs, they always answer C. It's not a surprise that projects like GIT are (mostly) written in C. Most traditional *nix software is written in C and so are libraries like GTK+. C just works :)
