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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by markus_zhang on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:33AM (#36654754)
For me I use C because it's the de facto system programming language for botb Linux and Windows. Another reason is that C grammar is simple (but has a lot of quirks I do admit.)
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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by zer8k on Sunday July 09, 2023 @11:50AM (#36655512)
Professionally I do Python. From my experience the breakages occur due to an over-reliance on libraries to do trivial tasks. Do you find a different case?
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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by markus_zhang on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:25PM (#36659066)
Unfortunately I'm not professional enough to answer this question. I use C to learn system programming only and I never had the capacity to look at the kernel.
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