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Why use C?

Why use C?

Posted Jun 29, 2012 22:00 UTC (Fri) by daniel (subscriber, #3181)
In reply to: Why use C? by etienne
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

If you don't know exactly what code your compiler produces, whether C or C++, maybe you should seek some more forgiving project than the kernel.


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Why use C?

Posted Jun 30, 2012 8:44 UTC (Sat) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> If you don't know exactly what code your compiler produces, whether C or C++, maybe you should seek some more forgiving project than the kernel.
That's ridiculous. Nobody knows exactly what code exactly a modern compiler will produce for any non-trivial piece of code, including the compiler's authors.

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