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You don't need huge libraries and labyrinthine frameworks to be a 'useful' language. C is a perfectly good language with just the most basic standard library.
by NickPollard 16y ago
You don't need huge libraries and labyrinthine frameworks to be a 'useful' language. C is a perfectly good language with just the most basic standard library.
- cturner 16y agoC does get the OS API, though. Is it easy and non-kludgy to make unix system calls from arc?
- jbarham 16y ago> C is a perfectly good language with just the most basic standard library. Unless you want to write cross-platform networking code. But in that case C is an excellent language for writing networking libraries for your favorite scripting languages. I'd argue that nowadays C is used more to implement other languages than it is by itself.
- silentbicycle 16y agoThat's probably been true for a long time. That and low-level libraries. Even the really old Unix books recommend piping together small C utilities and stuff written in awk, sh, etc.