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C / C++

Here's a little about C / C++.

About the language

C and C++ are very widely known and available programming languages, so hopefully I don't have to write too much about it :) However I'll give a few facts:

Advantages

Widely available with many well debugged compilers
Supports virtually all known platforms and operating systems - to the credit of the good old GNU C Compiler (gcc) which is now called the GNU Compiler Collection.
Widely used - problably mostly to the credit of gcc and because of it's heavy use in UNIX.
Both C and C++ have been standardized with ANSI standards - which is a very good thing.
Gives good support for accessing hardware directly on all platforms.
Produces very efficient code with most compilers.
It has a quite compact syntax.

Disadvantages

C and C++ are problably the most unsafe langauges available!
The syntax can be hard to read correctly (for humans) due to many subtle details.
The two facts above means that it is very easy to create very subtle, devastating and hard-to-find bugs.
The syntax is difficult to read (parse) for compilers.

Available compilers

GNU Compiler Collection - problably the most stable and complete C/C++/Objective-C compiler

There are many more compilers available, but this one is problably your best choice, since it's Open Source software.