> people liking high-level languages aren't arguing you should never use C Some do; the most frustrating such conversation I can remember with such a person wa

> people liking high-level languages aren't arguing you should never use C Some do; the most frustrating such conversation I can remember with such a person was this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2537155 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2537155 This person argued that the only way to make progress in systems programming is to ditch C as the basis of the system and linking model, in favor of something more constrained. That's the kind of talk that gets me cranky. It's precisely because C and assembly are so unconstrained that such a wide variety of programming paradigms can all be implemented efficiently and run under a single OS, and that we can so easily experiment with brand new paradigms without having to get buy-in from the VM gatekeepers.