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COBOL and Fortran are indeed still wide used, however I claim there is way more C89 than those two together. The point about C89 is that this covers a large are
by johannes1234321 8y ago
COBOL and Fortran are indeed still wide used, however I claim there is way more C89 than those two together. The point about C89 is that this covers a large area - all common Unix/Linux APIs and libraries are at least C89 compatible, if not written using C8 and as the GP mentioned embedded often depends heavily on such compilers. Thus usage goes far across industries with new libraries being created each day. COBOL and Fortan are way more in their fields (legacy business and science respectively) where more and more logic is build around those old systems using newer languages.
- kllrnohj 8y agoC89 compatible but not written in C89, which is the point. And almost certainly just C89 compatible because C99 didn't change the ABI, so that happened "for free". But the actual source, the thing people actually write in, is not C89. Linux heavily leverages new language and compiler extensions. It doesn't handicap itself with only using C89, because that's just silly.