how relevant is C today?

Mon Apr 10 03:24:03 EDT 2006

In article <443965f2$0$67257$157c6196 at dreader2.cybercity.dk>,
 David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen at gmx.net> wrote:

>In my everyday work, I am forced to use a C90 only compiler, and 
>everyday I miss some C++ feature that wouldn't make my program any more 
>complex, quite the opposite. These are features like "const", no default 
>extern linkage, more typesafe enums etc. 

"const" is in C89/C90. As for the others, how about hiding a copy of GCC 
somewhere, just to use to preflight your code before actually building 
it with your compulsory broken compiler? :)