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Re:What's happening with Arc? by jbarham on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @11:25AM (#1834561)
> C is a perfectly good language with just the most basic standard library.

Unless you want to write cross-platform networking code. But in that case C is an excellent language for writing networking libraries for your favorite scripting languages.

I'd argue that nowadays C is used more to implement other languages than it is by itself.

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Re:What's happening with Arc? by silentbicycle on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:12PM (#1834753)
That's probably been true for a long time. That and low-level libraries.

Even the really old Unix books recommend piping together small C utilities and stuff written in awk, sh, etc.

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