It's just legacy. C as infrastructure is good, C as a language is bad. There's a whole industry and millions of lines of code in visual basic, but I never met somebody who says that VB is good. Is there a way to say "do…
It's good somebody even tries to break the old myth about C as an essential kernel part. C is _not_ good for drivers: it lacks most of the appropriate abstractions, just as facilities to create them. Once we switch from…
It's just legacy. C as infrastructure is good, C as a language is bad. There's a whole industry and millions of lines of code in visual basic, but I never met somebody who says that VB is good. Is there a way to say "do…
It's good somebody even tries to break the old myth about C as an essential kernel part. C is _not_ good for drivers: it lacks most of the appropriate abstractions, just as facilities to create them. Once we switch from…