on mon NUMBER sep NUMBER russell turpin wrote adam beberg considering NUMBER of the fake job posting i see are for embedded systems or device drivers c still rules the world there is a lot of c in the embedded world with static object allocation and a few other programming techniques performance differences disappear but c gives a boost in development and maintainability agreed not much difference there with c it just doesnt seem as wrong to be crawling around in registers and things quite frankly you cant fit _that_ big of a project into a NUMBERk rom so large project issues dont matter as much in the embedded world and in the realtime space or when you have data coming in at NUMBERgbit sec fibrechannel every cycle does count the real issue is compiler availability almost every embedded platform has c cross compilers many have c compilers but there is still a range of platforms that have the first but not the second or at least that was the story a few years ago definately still very very true c compilers are still a rarity adam l duncan beberg URL beberg URL 