Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> The point that everyone has been making to you, Olin, is that no one is
>> forced to use C, not on any platform -- there's always an alternative
>> available.*
>
> Perhaps technically, but not in practise.  Compare the number of C 
> compilers
> offered by Microchip for their chips versus non-C compilers they offer.
> Look at the same statistics for third party vendors.  There are a few 
> non-C
> offerings out there, but are by far in the minority.

It would be interesting to get a compiler vendor's opinion on why there are 
more C compilers. Is it simply because there's more demand for them, or 
perhaps they're easier to write/port?

Don't we have a compiler vendor on this list?

Vitaliy 

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