Back in the good ol'/bad ol' days of the very early web/Internet, I had the fortune of working with someone who, lets say, has kind of a background in certain o

Back in the good ol'/bad ol' days of the very early web/Internet, I had the fortune of working with someone who, lets say, has kind of a background in certain operating systems circles. Not only had this fellow built a functional ISP in one of the toughest markets (at that time), in the world - but he'd also managed to build the database engine and quite a few of the other tools that ran that ISP, and was in danger of setting a few standards for a few things which, since then, have long since settled out, but .. nevertheless .. it could've been. Anyway, this fellow wrote everything in C. His web page, his TODO.h for the day .. he had C-based tools for managing his docs, for doing syncs between various systems under his command (often in very far-away locations, and even under water a couple times) .. everything, in C. The database system he wrote in pure C was, at the time, quite a delight. It gave a few folks further up the road a bit of a tight neck. He went on to do an OS, because of course he did. Just sayin', SQLite devs aren't the only ones who got this right. ;)