Cast not your Perl before swine?

[Levi Pearson]

Dave Smith <dave at thesmithfam.org> writes:
>
> I'd be willing to bet my pointer arithmetic that most of those C jobs
> are actually C++ jobs. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a
> non-kernel-space program written in vanilla C? And no, GTK apps don't
> count. :)
>

Well, how about the one I just wrote at work?  I do most of my
embedded software work in plain C, though I sometimes do wish for
parts of C++.  But yeah, I am in general against the use of C for new
development, unless circumstances really demand it.

                --Levi