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ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say,
are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.
-- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
UNIX