On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 07:52:37 UTC, Stuart wrote:
On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 02:31:42 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen
wrote:
In all fairness, I think C still has its place. The advantage
of writing software in C is that when you want to port it to a
new platform/architecture, there will almost always be a C
compiler available. This isn't the case for D yet - but
hopefully will be in the future. But note, even then, that D
only targets 32-bit architectures and up, while C can handle
16-bit architectures.
Ah. So, in essence, C has a purpose because [a] it supports
incredibly obsolete hardware that nobody in their right mind
would be using;
Yep, who would want to use one of the many 8 and 16 bit processors
used to make work all the embedded systems in microwaves, fridges,
on bord car computers, cameras, watches, calculators, elevators,
vcr/dvd systems ...
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Paulo
