On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Michael Watterson wrote= : > > C is broken? How? Someone forgot to tell me. > > > Why invent Objective C, C++, Java, C# and a gazillion other stuff if it > isn't? > Why do we have patch after patch to Applications and OSes? > > It's not any more broken than it ever was. So don't worry, if you are > using C and getting the job done. Most programmers using C++ or > Objective C are mostly or entirely programming in C really anyway. The > really old ones think they are using ForTran as the counter loops are > meaningfully named i, j and k Point taken. I use C for small projects and embedded systems where I think it works really well. I believe most of Windows is C++ at this point, right? I think most cross-platform applications are using some variety of a virtual machine, an= d probably not written in C/C++ for that reason, one of many. --=20 Martin K. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .