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user-inactivated  ·  3147 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Miller - A CSV processing tool, in the style of awk, sed & others

It really weirds me out that people feel obliged to justify writing things in C now.





cpm  ·  3147 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I find it a bit odd as well, but I agree with his justifications. I suspect that he did it to preempt all of the HN types who want to know why it's not written in the language du jour. As long as you know how to write clean modern C, it's a pretty good choice for these types of things.