how relevant is C today?

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Sat Apr 8 19:52:34 EDT 2006


John Salerno enlightened us with:
> Because of my 'novice-ness' in programming, I had always thought that C 
> was replaced by C++ and wasn't really used anymore today.

C is used in many, many programs. The Linux kernel is perhaps one of
the best known. IIRC Apache is written inC too. The default Python
implementation too, of course.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa



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