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Re:Giving up on Julia (2016) by DNF2 on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:43AM (#20737656)
I have no idea, and I don't really see how relevant this is to the original remark that you responded to.
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Re:Giving up on Julia (2016) by pjmlp on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:53AM (#20737739)
They are written in C unless they are powerfull enough to hold something else, like Cisco does with Chicken Scheme on their routers.

https://www.micrium.com/rtos/tcpip/

Quoting the relevant quote "you wouldn't use C to write your simple website", except that is exacly what EE does when on device memory is measured in KB.

C++ would be safer, but the C89 culture reigns in such domains.

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