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Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C
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>Seriously, is anyone still doing any real development in C besides
>kernel programming and embedded world??  Maybe I was living under a
>rock, but I always had an impression that the industry moved to C++ in
>the late 90s and stayed with it ever since.

I repeat myself: C never was intended for writing business applications. It=
 was made for OS=20
development in the sense of a portable assembler replacement. It also has f=
ound itself as the=20
main devel language for fundamental services like db engines etc.