Most great software was/is written in C

Prove me otherwise, actual real world examples please.

XMonad

>>1
C has been a fad for some years now, so much of the software people know about has been written in it.
Ftfy. I could give you Sketchpad, for example, or any Lisp Machine software or library, such as the Garnet UI toolkit.

No one uses your precious Lithp for anything real world.
Get over it.

Windows is written in C.

>>5
I thought it was VBA all the way down...?

>>3
20+ years is a fad?

>>7
You could make the argument that it's more of a cult.

Most bad software is also written in C.

U MONAD HASKALL?

U >>= HASKAL!

Most consumer products are made in China.

>>9
All good software is written in C.

Lisp can't be used for anything but for extending programs written in C.

>>13
What, you mean the Lisp interpreter/compiler itself?

>>14
Most Lisps are written in Lisp.

>>15
only because it's so fucking easy to get it right

>>15
They still have many important parts like GC written in C.

>>17
Because that's what the platform's tools consist of. What's your point?

>>17
LISP Machines.

>>19
In your dreams

>>1
Age of Wonders was written in liSp

Most great homework was/is written in Java

Eve Online.

>>20
Lisp Machines actually do have their gc written in lisp, even the CPU's microcode is usually written in Lisp. The GC is in Lisp, and the C compiler is written in Lisp.

>>21
I LOVE AGE OF WONDERS

>>21
As far as I remember, Age of Wonders was written in Delphi 5

>>18
The point is that most Lisps aren't entirely written in Lisp and depend on C. And not just to get the Lisp loaded and running, but essential parts of the runtime environment.

Also, Lisp Machines don't exist anymore, why would you bring that up?

>>27
You totally told those lispfags bro.

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>>27
They only depend on C because that's what most platforms are written in. You can't just have shit like memory management appear there without some glue code, unless bindings to OS facilities already exist in the language you're writing... which is not possible.

>>27
It's usually not much code, and this is not true of all modern lisps. Writing the GC and image load/save in C is common, but it's hardly a problem to write that in asm or Lisp, if you wish to do that. Personally, I have little to no problem with this, as I never had a problem with using C for low/mid-level code (which involves a lot of pointer use), if the majority of that code was of that nature. It's not that these things couldn't be written in Lisp in the first place, just that it tends to be less effort to write the low-level OS-specific parts in C first (having to implement all the OS-specific stuff in Lisp would increase your code-base). Also, this C code is hardly a lot of code: in SBCL on Win32, sbcl.exe is 96kb (gc, some glue code and loader for the image - after stripping debug symbols), while the actual sbcl.core is ~25MB (all native code and data, loaded into memory).

>>27
There's a difference between depending on C and using it.

>>32
Hmm. Sounds kind of like drugs.

Curious.

>>33
This made me wonder what programming language sounded most like a drug. But I guess Grass wins by default.

>>34
BRAINFUCK?

>>34
"Guys, I've got something to tell you. I'm hooked on PHP. I'm so sorry."

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