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As languages go C may be a lot of things but I don't think you can call it "unpopular".

• mmt 17y ago
  How about passé or gauche or some other fashion term, with perhaps, all the implied connotation?
• ajross 17y ago
  Indeed. I'm always surprised at the number of people I meet (and, distressingly, the number of posters on this site) that honestly believe that "most" software is written by web geeks or IT droids in scripting languages or Java or .NET. That, and the fact that this belief persists as they turn off their digital televisions, click their garage door remotes, text a friend on their phone, fire up the engine in their personal vehicle, and drive to work stopping carefully at all the carefully automated traffic lights, swipe their ID card and sit at their desk where they can finally get to see some software.
  • scott_s 17y ago
    Quoth a friend of mine who is a computer engineer at GE, "Java doesn't keep the lights on."
  • pmorici 17y ago
    Exactly, and ironically a lot of those higher level languages are written in C.