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Re:Learn C by pjmlp on Sunday June 02, 2013 @04:20PM (#5809934)
Funny as someone that started coded back in the day Assembly was enterprise coding, my understanding of a high level language is a bit different than yours.

You asked for desktop software without any mention of time.

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Re:Learn C by dylangs1030 on Sunday June 02, 2013 @05:42PM (#5810218)
The implication is that his test is a proof of C's merit.

Merit is time-sensitive, in that if software is converted to another language, that language is more profitable/efficient for that software.

Therefore, the implication is also that systems converted to C demonstrate C's merit, because it's been decades since they were actually in the language you speak of.

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Re:Learn C by pjmlp on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:38AM (#5811719)
What can I say. I am older than C and remember the days when it was used only as the UNIX system's language.

UNIX's success made people want to port UNIX's tooling for their home computers, this lead to the spread of C implementations outside UNIX.

Had UNIX been written in language XYZ, the article would be called "Learn XYZ". Merit is relative.

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