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Weird question, what's wrong with C? A simple, elegant, efficient language that is close to the metal.

• wglb 17y ago
  Ah, but why does it have to be close to the metal?
  • wglb 17y ago
    Keeping in mind that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics was programmed in PL/1 and assembler, and may have generated more ideas than Linux or Unix.