>> Has this realization somehow been lost over time with the rise of languages like Java, PHP, JavaScript and Ruby, even though the major implementations of those languages are themselves built using C and/or C++?
This feels like an oversimplification. There are surely very good reasons to choose [insert language other than C] for production / prototyping / development purposes. The fact that [language] was built in and / or relies on C libraries is at that point not central to the discussion.
This feels like an oversimplification. There are surely very good reasons to choose [insert language other than C] for production / prototyping / development purposes. The fact that [language] was built in and / or relies on C libraries is at that point not central to the discussion.