Rusty Russell gave the keynote at this year's Open Source Developer's Conference on a subject close to his heart, C.
Despite the language being over 30 years old, Russell feels that it should still remain an essential tool to any serious programmer. He discusses why despite the emergence of other languages that have "flavour of the month" status, C still continues to remain relevant.
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