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One reason would be the massive existing codebases written in C (Linux kernel, anyone?)...

• paolopatron 15y ago
  We should all switch to Java/C#. It makes programming much much faster and easier. http://techiest.blogspot.com/ http://techiest.blogspot.com/.
  • joezydeco 14y ago
    I work on embedded microcontrollers that have, at the most, 16K of code space and 512 bytes of RAM. I have a nice efficient optimizing C compiler that creates object code nearly as tight as the local assembly language. Do you think I would benefit from Java? Because I don't.
  • tonteldoos 15y ago
    And the resulting code much slower too. It all depends on what you want to accomplish. Really, THIS particular topic has substantial bandwidth allocated to it already...