OT: Language for the ages

[der Mouse]

>> C is the obvious choice.  In either case, you have to be careful
>> that you don't wreck the portability by using non-portable I/O.
> Er, how big is an int?  a pointer?

If you care (for reasons affecting your code), you're writing
nonportable code.

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