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Article: Is C dead?(PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
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- EE-Evaluation Engineering
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The C language has been the choice for test and measurement applications for years. But with the popularity of object-oriented languages such as C++ and C#, some may wonder if C has a place in tomorrow's test systems. If you do have a significant amount of C code investment, it is important to understand not only the key C programming language strengths and weaknesses but also best practices when integrating C code into applications written in another language.
Introduced more than 35 years ago, the C language has been used in test and measurement, embedded systems, and device driver development for decades. Initially created to address code reuse challenges ...