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RAII and smart pointers pretty much make C, and the programming style typical of C programs, obsolete.

C will always be here for historical reasons and because of all the code written in it that would be difficult to convert. But new development should be in C++. Yes, Linus, if you were starting Linux today I'd take you to task for not using C++. :)



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