General question why must of the servers written in c and not c++ ?

Hello all
must of the servers out there at list web servers are written in c
is there special reason ?

Because C is an awesome language that has been around since the 70's or so.

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Originally Posted by MacGyver

Because C is an awesome language that has been around since the 70's or so.

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And even if C++ is an awesomer (word?) language, it takes a lot more than a better language to convince someone with a working product to rewrite it in a different language.

I'm sure if they started TODAY, then it would be written in C++ - but since it's already in existence, and it's working correctly, we follow the principle of "if it's working, don't mess with it".

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Mats

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Originally Posted by matsp

awesomer (word?)

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I believe the correct form is "more awesome."
But all the popular web servers started pretty early, and that would mean C...