Impressed

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sat Jul 28 05:01:22 PDT 2012


On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 07:52:37 UTC, Stuart wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 02:31:42 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
> wrote:
>>
>> In all fairness, I think C still has its place. The advantage 
>> of writing software in C is that when you want to port it to a 
>> new platform/architecture, there will almost always be a C 
>> compiler available. This isn't the case for D yet - but 
>> hopefully will be in the future. But note, even then, that D 
>> only targets 32-bit architectures and up, while C can handle 
>> 16-bit architectures.
>
> Ah. So, in essence, C has a purpose because [a] it supports 
> incredibly obsolete hardware that nobody in their right mind 
> would be using;

Yep, who would want to use one of the many 8 and 16 bit processors
used to make work all the embedded systems in microwaves, fridges,
on bord car computers, cameras, watches, calculators, elevators,
vcr/dvd systems ...


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Paulo



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