Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Who would want to deal with C's idiosyncrasies, low-powered explicit type > system, difficult syntax, and core-dumps, when you could use something > better?
In the free software world, apparently many people like C. C is also quite popular in the zero-fault software world: Several verification tools do exist and Leroy et al. are writing a certified compiler for C to plug the hole between the verified source code and the generated assembly. Stefan Krah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list