Thank you for writing that. It makes me feel like I'm not completely insane because there are other people who think the same. If you know what you are doing -

Thank you for writing that. It makes me feel like I'm not completely insane because there are other people who think the same. If you know what you are doing - C is your best option. The problem is that there are thousands of people these days who do not know what they are doing and basically they do not understand how computers and operating systems work. They need very high levels of abstraction which is costly and usually introduces a whole bunch of new problems. Add all those weird frameworks/libraries on top of that and you end up paying 10x more for hardware and get 10x slower product. Though, it's really hard to find a decent and productive C programmer today, so people settle for what's easily available. Another problem is that those "cheaper resources" are defining what programming is these days. I think there is a huge difference between programming and scripting... Call me Dino. BTW, loved the banana example :)