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Historically speaking, you didn't. It is only relatively recently that microcontrollers have become powerful and spacious enough for that to be an option.

• shakna 8y ago
  Depends what you mean by recent. Ada's been on microcontrollers for more than a couple decades.
• mokus 8y ago
  I remember a time when folks sighed wistfully at the idea of being able to afford wasting cycles and memory on C in embedded...