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cpm  ·  3413 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Miller - A CSV processing tool, in the style of awk, sed & others

Yeah, I find it a bit odd as well, but I agree with his justifications. I suspect that he did it to preempt all of the HN types who want to know why it's not written in the language du jour. As long as you know how to write clean modern C, it's a pretty good choice for these types of things.