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by amaks 3353 days ago
There are several reasons why people use C, one of them is that the language makes it very explicit what generated code is going to look like. That's one of the reasons why Windows kernel is written in C (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff..., https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http://dow...). Libraries like this obfuscate source code.
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A problem with C in modern usage is that many people believe this to be more the case than is warranted.