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Re:Taking C Seriously by pvarangot on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @07:54PM (#3189483)
The Linux kernel, Subversion and PHP are pure C. And don't get me started on the BSDs or binutils... ld and libbfd are pure C and its C++ replacement (gold) is still not widely used.

And this came without thinking about it... surely in two more minutes or by going to ohloh I could fire a couple more large bodies of non-trivial low-level C code at you.

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Re:Taking C Seriously by burgerbrain on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @09:02PM (#3189665)
"Subversion"

And don't forget Git! ;)

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Re:Taking C Seriously by JoeAltmaier on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:29AM (#3192206)
...because the environment precludes changing? Back when I was pressed into Linux work (years) C++ keywords were used as variable names in standard headers. Made it pretty obvious nobody had ever, ever tried to use C++ for Linux code.

I tried writing Linux kernel drivers; it was a horrifying mess. Tragically, it would have been easily managed in C++.

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Re:Taking C Seriously by comex on Thursday November 03, 2011 @02:52AM (#3190619)
> The Linux kernel, Subversion and PHP are pure C. And don't get me started on the BSDs or binutils... ld and libbfd are pure C and its C++ replacement (gold) is still not widely used.

Please pick gcc to mention or, indeed, any other C program ever written, before libbfd ;)

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Re:Taking C Seriously by danieldk on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:19AM (#3190678)
But then, the new star (clang/LLVM) is written in C++.
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