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		coliveira on Sept 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How can C Programs be so Reliable? > buttoning down a C runtime environment so you can be rely on the assumptions behind those abstractions is a chore. may be hard, but not more difficult than creating the run time for any other language such as Java or Python -- and they are all written in C.

ori_b on Sept 22, 2011 [–]

Irrelevant, since those runtimes are already written. And yes, I am a primarily a C programmer, although I've been mostly doing C++ recently.

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