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		slowpoke on April 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A turning point for GNU libc And that's a problem. If you want to do system programming, there's C. And that's pretty much it. I don't think this is a very favorable situation.

rhizome on April 4, 2012 [–]

Why not? It's the language that was used to write the OS, which is why Perl and shells still hold sway here as well.

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