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wazoox on Jan 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn C The Hard Way

The Linux kernel is in C. Large parts of the Gnome project are in C.

nandemo on Jan 16, 2012 [–]

Also the GNU utilities, Apache and nginx, and the odd interpreter (Perl, Python, Ruby) or runtime system (Haskell), OpenSSL, qmail, Emacs' and vim's core, etc.

But yeah, apart from that stuff, C is hardly used.

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