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[*]Lets be honest. Machines are getting faster by the minute, and pretty soon the necessity of using C for embedded systems will disappear, and the language will follow closely behind.
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Unlikely. I find it hard to believe that you could fit a Java virtual machine on an 8 bit CPU with 1 kilobytes of flash memory and 64 bytes of RAM and 64 bytes of EEPROM.
 
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