It was an interesting article, although it's essentially a half-baked
anti-C rant. Some languages are faster than C at doing things that
they were designed to do more quickly than C does. Duh! C is still
what it was designed to be: a good, fast, portable, general-purpose
language.
If the bulk of your problem is quickly and efficiently ordering a
large list, parsing a set of context-free grammars, or querying for
matches based on a set of given conditions, then ocaml, lisp, or
prolog may be the tool for you. But if you need to solve a wide
variety of problems fairly efficiently, without having to fight the
language the entire time to do so, C remains a decent choice.
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/the_c_is_efficient_language_fa.php#comment-253996
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