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comment by briandmyers
briandmyers  ·  4086 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"

There's nothing wrong with using the right tool for the right job. C will live a long long time, because you don't need more than C to do whatever you need to do, on an embedded processor. For other work, PC and browser apps, whatever, other languages do better. Personally, I like what I've seen of python; but C is my bread and butter, because it does all I need it to do, and very well.