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Probably because everything else in application-level area is already being written in something else, safer than plain old C.

It is the systems-level code with UNIX heritage that is the main problem.



Naah, I believe in some areas like DARPA's a lot of folks still do C out of tradition only. Same as in banking they still use COBOL -- way too many existing problems and integrations are already in COBOL. In DARPA I think a lot of control software is written in C, even though some of their controllers can even run Java. So a large-scale effort is needed to refactor all the infrastructure.l and processes.




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