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IMHO, you missed the Linux kernel(, OK, it's kernel and does not count as an app).

• jlgreco 14y ago
  I suspect Nursie is being sarcastic.
• Nursie 14y ago
  jlgreco is correct, that was deep and sincere sarcasm on my part. C is an extremely capable language and I personally have (technical, not people) managed millions of lines of it. I really don't understand the mentality that C is hard, that memory management is hard, that pthread-multithreading is hard and that complex systems in C are impossible, But then I've been coding in it professionally for about 12 years, so I guess I just grok it.
  • cageface 14y ago
    I first started writing C code in about 1988. I still find it by far the hardest of the mainstream programming languages to avoid resource leaks, buffer overruns, and gratuitously verbose code.
    • Nursie 14y ago
      Perhaps it is, I don't have a lot to compare it to other than higher level dynamic languages like python. Those I can forgive somehow, probably because I don't usually feel like I'm doing anything serious with them, In the mid level (C++, Java) I find not minutely managing every resource quite alien. I'm currently working in C++ with/for someone deeply in love with STL, boost, RAII and overly gratuitous typecasts and I'll admit I'm finding it a tough transition. I guess I'm deeply in love with the 'everything is just a patch of memory' paradigm I've become used to.
• rm445 14y ago
  How did you miss the dripping sarcasm there?