How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for our new project?

Re:How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for ... by debacle on Friday September 07, 2012 @11:55AM (#4489719)

If your speed of development is glacial because the language you are writing in is just a hop skip and a jump away from ASM, then the language you are writing in is inadequate.

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Re:How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for ... by gms7777 on Friday September 07, 2012 @12:48PM (#4489997)

If your speed of development is glacial in C, then perhaps its that the skills of your developers that are inadequate.

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Re:How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for ... by cobolorum on Sunday September 09, 2012 @08:36PM (#4497685)

This sounds a lot like some random FUD that you picked up somewhere. If C dev times are so long, why is it that new versions of large scale applications written C are available so often? An adept C programmer can get an application up and running in quite short order. Quick GUI? GTKDialog is available as are: Win32 GUI API, GTK, QT, ncurses, FLTK, and many more. It is also worth noting that should your customer/employer be willing to use some opensource code in his/her/their application, the amount of open source C code available online is quite staggering.

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