So, a couple things. 1) The original question was how to convince his boss that C is a bad choice. My answer is a good way to do it. 2) Re: my direct experie

So, a couple things. 1) The original question was how to convince his boss that C is a bad choice. My answer is a good way to do it. 2) Re: my direct experience... If you're talking about writing C, that's not true. But it has been a while because, frankly, I'd rather not torture myself. If you're talking about embedded programming, you're right, I haven't touched it. If you're talking about applications where performance is very important, I've been dealing with quite a bit of HPC type stuff over the last year or so. In general, the hardcore C/C++/Fortran guys are becoming less useful, for reasons I stated in my OP. Notice I'm not saying "useless", I'm saying "less useful". There are absolutely applications in which this just isn't possible, so use what works. But applications where C is your only choice are becoming rarer and rarer. And while we're here, where exactly did I say that the linux kernel should be rewritten in some other language? I didn't. So why would you suggest that I did? You're certainly welcome to disagree, but if you think that that warrants an insulting tone, it may just be because you're an asshole. It wouldn't be an internet first.