"C is the desert island language". see http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/intro.html http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/intro.html For me, Linux is a huge de

"C is the desert island language". see http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/intro.html http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/intro.html For me, Linux is a huge development environment dedicated to C programming. Chapter 2 and 3 of manual pages gives C api. C gives the most direct access to kernel. IMHO we should try to find a replacement for C and the first target for this language should be linux kernel. If you can conceive a language that Linus Torvalds accepts, the rest of the planet will follow ;-)