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People just live in bubbles don't they. If I want to write a 100 line program for a tiny microcontroller what should I do? Write it in assembler? I mean I could, but I think the author would have even more esoteric problems with that! Meanwhile I would just get the job done with a language that apparently doesn't exist anymore.

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I think you missed hos point. The problem is that C is not well designed enough to be used like it is today. The abi checker showing failed tests even on ubuntu is evidence of that.

You can write your program in any lang you want, thats up to you but using C as the os-level standard is problematic according to the author.

> using C as the os-level standard is problematic according to the author.

I don't care. That's my point. I missed the bit where the author allowed for that. That's why I described it as esoteric.

Did you read the article?

You're taking the title too literally. The author is talking about how C is also a protocol, in that it is the defacto definition for ABIs.

So, the title is misleading, lacking a word like just or only after "isn't".

Agreed. Yes and, folks should read more than just the title before taking strong stances on the article.

Where I am standing, I can pick Assembly, C, C++, Pascal, BASIC, looking only at commercial vendors offerings.

Nonetheless, that isn't the topic of the article, that quite clearly you haven't read.

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