Aedan

I'm aware of almost all of that, but my point wasn't about things already written in C, I'm talking about why keep writing in C. Extreme control and performance are unique traits of C? Being a relic of the past, it lacks greats thing modern languages take for default (like, I don't now, memory management, for example). That's where my point was heading. Can't new languages in the multicore age address this issue in a more elegant, modern and less "protocolary" way?

Excuse my apparent ignorance, but people are still programming in C?

Why? On which fields? Is there something C can do better than Java or C#?

Totally agreed. I think, however, the author mentions an interesting point, but he fail to deliver it correctly. The documentary "High Anxieties - The Mathematics of Chaos", by David Malone makes a very historical analysis of the point the author is trying to make.