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> C is _not_good for drivers You'll have to back up that assertion with some facts here, there's a whole industry and millions of lines of code that contradict

• almk277 13y ago
  It's just legacy. C as infrastructure is good, C as a language is bad. There's a whole industry and millions of lines of code in visual basic, but I never met somebody who says that VB is good. Is there a way to say "do this under spinlock"? Is there a way to handle errors not mixing it with main logic? Not wrapping nearly every line with if/goto? Is there a way to create a generic collection? No, linux list.h is not that: it requires manual initialization, it does not work with elements, but with their special parts, it's macroses requires logically unneeded information (such as 'member' in list_for_each_entry), and so on. And this is the best you can do in C. C is too unobvious, too. Google for "wait4 backdoor". C works, of course. It just requires too much boilerplate code and too much programmer resources.
• pjmlp 13y ago
  C is designed for security exploits from day one. The industry of million lines of code exists, because UNIX and its system programming language, C, spread into the enterprise when the university students brought it from their labs into the enterprise. Thankfully the industry is slowly moving to other languages.