I'm a long time C hacker - since about 1984 when I was working for Shape Data hacking FORTRAN 66 in it's CSG modeller "Romulus" and supported the adoption of C to implement a new UI.
After that I worked for Acorn (ARX (Modula-2), RISC iX (C; un*x), RISC OS (ARM assembler), bad management), EO (PenPoint, politics, bad management), Microsoft (C: Office; 24x7, but d**m*d good management) and myself (bad management again.)
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