You're right, unixprogrammer; real hackers write everything in the venerable C. On the other hand, there is a fair bit of negativity in this thread, just becau

You're right, unixprogrammer; real hackers write everything in the venerable C. On the other hand, there is a fair bit of negativity in this thread, just because it is C. That might not be in the hacker spirit, so to speak.