[OT] Ada gems

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On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 18:15:10 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Even if that isn't the case, the only thing C is good at 
> currently is embedded devices low on RAM, device drivers and 
> being a portable assembler.
>
> For everything else, there are better alternatives.

Portable libraries. It is a stable design that most languages can 
interface with, so you can generally not go wrong by writing 
libraries in C.

It is a pity that some cool libraries are C++ only (like 3D 
physics), but maybe automatic source-to-source translation can do 
well sometime in the future.