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B-Con on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s to love about C?

> I really flipping "hate" C. It's used for everything in Linux it seems like. Things that really ought to be high level turn out to be a libfoo.so, requiring a C compiler.

I'm confused by what you mean. What is this "higher level" that functionality should exist at that is above libfoo.so?

pnathan on June 11, 2012 [–]

A better phrasing would be: "things that ought to be written in a highlevel language frequently turn out to be written in C".

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