C will go away when operating systems stop begin written in C but language X or Z, no more, no less. If Linux was written in ADA or Turbo Pascal then people wou

C will go away when operating systems stop begin written in C but language X or Z, no more, no less. If Linux was written in ADA or Turbo Pascal then people would be using ADA or Turbo Pascal instead of C. It's a chicken and egg problem. A lot of C programmers complain about the wildness of C++, but frankly, often complex C programs are that close to be their "own languages" with custom object systems, Macros and what not.