[nylug-talk] Popularity of Programming Languages

[Ajai Khattri]

mbac at netgraft.com wrote:
> Is C's strong presence simply the weight of the huge body of existing 
> code plus maintenance traffic?  Is anyone developing new applications 
> today exclusively in C?  If so, why?
>
> I still write C code, but it is always small pieces, in situations 
> where we tried to do it in Java or Python and found that we were CPU 
> bottlenecked.  Interestingly enough, because of how exceptional these 
> cases are, the usual anti-C rhetoric is irrelevant. ;)

Apart from the Linux kernel, Im assuming there still a lot of embedded 
stuff written in C.


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