Embedded Software Engineer
With all the level of abstraction introduced by OOL, people seem to forget and underestimate the purpose of C
. C
is first and foremost a portable assembler
, which is why it is still used today. Today's "programmers" want to argue, that C
is old and should be replaced by a different language such as C++
. However, C++
and any other OOL language are so abstract, that they fail to let the developer imagine how the code will be translated to assembly
and binary code.
In my opinion C
is irreplaceable, and if you are one of those who haven't heard of assembly
yet or argues that low level system knowledge is counterproductive (and believe me there are a lot of these so called programmers around us), then you are not a programmer nor a developer, you are a hobbyist.