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Re:TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language by ajb on Monday April 09, 2012 @11:26AM (#3817360)
Java and C# have 'managed' runtimes; it the language manages memory for you. This memory management bit cannot itself be written in the 'managed' language. Also, an operating system can't either[1].

Also, systems with hard real time requirements, such as audio/video, the signal processing code in your phone, wifi router, etc, are incompatible with almost all managed runtimes.

[1] Okay, I know there are academic ones that are. As far as I know, no productions systems are.

Re:TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language by pjmlp on Monday April 09, 2012 @05:16PM (#3819278)
Funny, because there are research compilers that do exactly that.