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Re:The cost of forsaking C by S_I on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:08PM (#12645689)
That was then, now is now. Today, at least in europe, big companies do care about standards. Go ahead, try proposing using a Compiler that does not implement any standard like C,C++ or Ada in the Automotive industry.

As for the rest, i agree.

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Re:The cost of forsaking C by nickpsecurity on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:04PM (#12646221)
Safety-critical industries here and over there are regulated by standards. They're an exception. Average, embedded system can use whatever it wants so long as it produces code to run on target board. Making your tooling generate C as output is easiest way to cheat. It's what I did with my BASIC 4GL. People were none the wiser.
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