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RE[2]: It's all about design
by gpsnoopy on Fri 11th Jan 2013 17:42
in reply to "RE: It's all about design"
Demand for C has increased a few years ago due to the need for developers in the embedded market.
Otherwise I would take this link with a pinch of salt: Visual Basic 6 is almost more popular than C# and on its way to surpass it.
I think that a more interesting metric would be the languages used daily on our computers and on large applications.
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RE[3]: It's all about design
by saso on Fri 11th Jan 2013 18:13
in reply to "RE[2]: It's all about design"
Demand for C has increased a few years ago due to the need for developers in the embedded market.
Otherwise I would take this link with a pinch of salt: Visual Basic 6 is almost more popular than C# and on its way to surpass it.
Otherwise I would take this link with a pinch of salt: Visual Basic 6 is almost more popular than C# and on its way to surpass it.
So what you are saying is that C isn't a good fit for *your* problem domain. No problem there, there's no silver bullet as languages go, and everybody picks their favorite language also according to personal taste.
I think that a more interesting metric would be the languages used daily on our computers and on large applications.
If you are allowed to formulate arbitrary questions, you can get arbitrary answers. That doesn't mean that they apply in the real world, though.
As for me, personally, I don't care if C is the least or most used computer language in the world. I still use the right tool for the job, be it C or something else.
RE[3]: It's all about design
by lucas_maximus on Mon 14th Jan 2013 11:31
in reply to "RE[2]: It's all about design"
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And yet, C is the most popular language and has been on the rise for a few years (even displaced Java as the most popular language a few years back):
http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
So, what gives?