It's really not the age or resources that hamper it (from experience hacking it). Well, OK, the age does matter -- but only because it's C. It wouldn't have bee

It's really not the age or resources that hamper it (from experience hacking it). Well, OK, the age does matter -- but only because it's C. It wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't have to reinvent basic things. GCC has its own garbage collector, a set of bizzare hacks to replace inheritance, amongst other atrocities. None of these have to do with resource constraints, and nearly all have to do with the low-level nature of C.