When the heck did .NET took over????

I was looking at job vacancies and all of them all said to the point of must have exp in C# or ASP (for web programming).

When the heck did Microsoft took over??? I though C++ and PHP were reigning still.

I DUNNO ABOUT YUO GUYS BUT I THINK BUFFER OVERRUNS ARE THE MARK OF A REEL PROGRAMMER SO IM GONNA KEEP USING C BECAUSE IT IS THE ONE TRUE LANGUAGE

>>24
Virtualizing your non-portable code for the absolute heck of it (and having shit said on magazines so stupid bosses want it). Think the Java VM, only better, but not portable, so WTF would you want to compile for that instead of >>25 real code: code that can be run directly by your processor.

>>26
Exactly. Actually, buffer underruns are not a problem in C, but the C standard library. It's your problem if you use it. Real programmers don't need standard libraries :P .

Would it really have been so bad to make this a core language feature?

C is an older language that sits right next to assembly. Back then they counted every memory access and cycle. Even now, in frequently-called inner loops, such checks can slow things down dramatically.

C is a pleasant and portable assembler language, nothing more; if you want the safety you'll have to add it yourself. The problem isn't C, but rather people using it in inappropriate domains.

The standard library could desperately use an update though.