> The sole reason why C is abundant in embedded systems 
> programming is because C was abundant in embedded systems 
> programming. 
> (snip)
> Apologies for the rant.

But it is IMHO still true. But a mediocre standard is sometimes still
better than no standard. If I learn my students some C that is very
probably what they will need in their jobs. They have a hard time
learning just C, I don't want to think of learning them CLU, Eiffel, a
few Ada versions, C++, a bunch of pascal-with-objects, Modula 2,
Haskell, Ruby, and a few more that I don't even know of.

Wouter van Ooijen

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