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 | | Moreover even for tasks that handle a fair amount of computations and data (computationally intensive tasks) such languages as Python and Perl are often (but not always !) competitive with C++, C# and, especially, Java. |
 | | My own experience was that type checking was so strict that even carefully constructed code could be rejected by the compiler for no understandable reason. |
 | | Much code which used to be written in assembly language is today written in C. The introduction into C of function prototypes, and the existence of instrumentation and debugging tools such as Purify and Insure++, has made programming in C less hazardous than it used to be. |
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