"Systems programming" (was: Language Niches (long))

[Cameron Laird]

In article <slrn9m96vj.f4i.grante at tuxtop.visi.com>,
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
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>AFAIK, all Unix system programming is still done in C.  (At least
>that's true for the Unices I'm familiar with (SCO, Solaris,
>BSD, Linux).
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Perlites occasionally make a serious pitch for this role.
Java, Forth, and C++ have all briefly flared as possibili-
ties.
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