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    My intention isn't to snipe at a particular commenter, but to suss out the boundaries of when one can say "X was written in C" and when you really need to say "X was written in a C-like language." Commented Aug 27, 2013 at 22:56
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    It's English. You were expecting a hard and fast rule? Commented Aug 27, 2013 at 23:03
  • Wouldn't you need to be able set specific registers and call IRQs to write drivers? I haven't done device drivers for modern PCI bus stuff. Commented Aug 28, 2013 at 1:43
  • @Martin Beckett - I've written embedded systems that used IRQs and specific hardware registers, and that was done in C (mid-90s). As far as I remember there were some extensions involved, but it wasn't a big deal - placing variables at specific addresses, probably a few "intrinsics". Commented Aug 31, 2013 at 3:36
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    @Leushenko: Your comment is both wrong and largely irrelevant. Turing-completeness is a minor point in my answer, but yes, you need a real programming language to do this (HTML is not going to get it done). Yours is the only downvote, BTW. Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 13:53