Hello Walter,
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.
I still think you're underestimating C's audience. Consider the Linux
effort - they can choose any implementation language they want, and
they choose C. They aren't forced into C.
Yes, C has a wide audience (any one who says differently is selling something).
But I still thing that their are very few cases where C will be chosen for
reasons other than it's purely technical merits. If C++/Java/C#/python/whatever
would have done just as good a job in Linux as C, I'd almost bet that Linux
wouldn't have been written in C. My point isn't that C is never the right
choice (as that is clearly false) but that when C is chosen, it's (almost)
always for technical reasons rather than aesthetic ones (where it is merely
good enough).
