[nylug-talk] Popularity of Programming Languages

[Paul Robbins]

The speed is what I use it for. I am not writing any major applications in
C, but I am writing a a good number of utilites when speed is an issue.
With some of the other languages, like Java, you have so much overhead with
libraries, that you gain such a speed advantage. Recently, I had to write a
utility to take a flat file and populate database tables based on certain
criteria. When I tried to do it in a shell script, it took over 10 seconds,
but running in C, it takes less than a second.  I have also come from a few
shops that have so much C code currently running that any new functionality
they add to existing applications are generally written in C just to keep
the cross functionality at a minimum. I am not saying this is the best
reasoning, but it probably has something to do with the continued use of C.

On 5/11/06, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
>
> 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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