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[QUOTE="glen herrmannsfeldt, post: 1692553"]
SL wrote:

(someone wrote)

C, as opposed to C++, or a few other languages, can have a relatively 
small overhead in terms of required library routines and the size of
generated code, and so works well in embedded applications that 
otherwise would need to be done in assembler.

Some Numerical analysis work is done in C, at least enough to allow the 
publication of "Numerical Recipes in C", but much is still done in 
Fortran.    For those jobs, you might be expected to know Fortran, even 
if you did all your coding in C.

Low level systems programming, device drivers and OS kernels, are still 
reasonably likely to be done in C, but one should probably know how to 
code assembler for the specific processor.

Much high-level applications programming is now done in other languages, 
such as Object oriented languages like C++ and Java.  There is also
Visual BASIC in there somewhere.

I would say that currently C is best for programs that need to be fast 
and efficient working with bits or characters, or even larger integers, 
but not usually floating point.   Pattern matching, searching and 
sorting, cryptography, data compression, low level graphics programming, 
are some of the applications that I can think of that fit those 
requirements.

-- glen
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