How Relevant is C in 2014?

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 8, 2014 @10:06PM from the don't-ask-netcraft dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes: Many programming languages have come and gone since Dennis Ritchie devised C in 1972, and yet C has not only survived three major revisions, but continues to thrive. But aside from this incredible legacy, what keeps C atop the Tiobe Index? The number of jobs available for C programmers is not huge, and many of those also include C++ and Objective-C. On Reddit, the C community, while one of the ten most popular programming communities, is half the size of the C++ group. In a new column, David Bolton argues that C remains extremely relevant due to a number of factors including newer C compiler support, the Internet ("basically driven by C applications"), an immense amount of active software written in C that's still used, and its ease in learning. "Knowing C provides a handy insight into higher-level languages — C++, Objective-C, Perl, Python, Java, PHP, C#, D and Go all have block syntax that's derived from C." Do you agree?

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Si. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-08 22:09 · Score: 5, Funny

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Relevant C by smittyoneeach · 2014-12-08 22:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Relevant C
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Re:First post by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2014-12-08 23:55 · Score: 5, Funny

We're talking about C. You want the zeroeth post.
Re:C is very relevant in 2014, by juanfgs · 2014-12-09 00:17 · Score: 5, Funny

. As a long time C hack (still am) I concur.
Behold. A C program that has gained sentience.
Re:First post by Letophoro · 2014-12-09 01:13 · Score: 5, Funny

We're talking about C. You want the zeroeth post.
You have to remember, there are two kinds of people in the world:
1) Those who begin their indexes at 1.
-and-
1) Those who begin their indexes at 0.