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[Paulo Pinto]

I was referring to languages that have existing native implementations and have been used in the industry to develop systems software like operating systems, compilers, drivers and so on. 

Most developers tend to use C just because of it is what it is available and the skills one should have when looking for jobs.

In the early MS-DOS, Windows 3.x days I did use Turbo Pascal to develop quite a few
system level applications before switching to C and C++ for some years.

Patrick Stewart Wrote:

> Paulo Pinto Wrote:
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> > Am 01.12.2011 12:59, schrieb Patrick Stewart:
> > >> I think one reason for the movement toward Java and JVM style languages is
> > >> that hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper, and developers cost the same
> > >> or more.  With a 'simpler to write' 'quicker to write' language like Java
> > >> (where you don't have to learn things like manual memory management) you
> > >> can more easily train programmers, and they will be cheaper also.  Then,
> > >> you can 'fix' any performance issues you have with better hardware, for
> > >> less than the cost of training/paying a C/C++ developer to re-develop it.
> > >> It makes business sense.
> > >>
> > >> Regan
> > >
> > > Bingo. Give the man a cookie. Anyway, if there was no C/C++, in what language would we build compilers :) ?
> > 
> > In Ada, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Component Pascal, Pascal, Delphi, 
> > Bartok just as possible examples?
> > 
> > There were programming languages before C and C++ existed, and surely 
> > there will be other systems programming languages. D might be such sucessor.
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> Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Haskell, Lua, Ruby... Not quite sure, but this comes to my mind as languages which  are written mostly or completely in C. I guess it beats by far any other listed language we can use for building compilers. Correct me if I'm wrong, it is a nice day for learning something new.
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