Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3B659726.33E301CA@san.rr.com...
>> �Don't use C;  In my opinion,  C is a library programming language
>>  not an app programming language.�  - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer)
>
> C is a sucky library programming language as well. Less sucky than a lot
> of other things, but the lack of any sort of first-class non-primitive
> data really bites for library development. (I.e., the fact that you
> can't return a string is quite a hinderance to most of the libraries I
> tend to write.)

But it has the huge advantage of having the stablest, standardist binary API
on most systems, and being useable from almost every programming language in
active use. Often, the only safe way to connect to systems in the same
language compiled by different compilers is through a C interface.

--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
"The pig -- belongs -- to _all_ mankind!" - Invader Zim