== Quote from Sean Kelly ([email protected])'s article > BCS Wrote: > > > > 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. > C has the advantage of working pretty much the same on every platform around, while C++ compilers are /still/ unreliable about standard library support, language features, etc. In fact, my current project is in C, though I'd prefer at least using the "C with objects" style of C++ like DMD is written in. As you've said, C is the lingua franca in many places and it's difficult to displace.
C is such an unbelievably low level language that I find it amazing that anyone would use it outside of kernels, device drivers, very resource-limited embedded systems and legacy systems where the decision was made a long time ago. I would think the portability issues of C++ would be easier to deal with than the extreme low levelness of C.
