.. which already works great on Android phones like the SE Xperia, which have a radio that can do ANT+ built-in, or on iPhone with things like the Wahoo Fitness Fisica accessory key.
C can be very productive if you put your energy into the right place: choosing your libraries and build-system to support the needs of your application.
I can right now build a lot of code in C because I've got the frameworks already set up and ready to go. I've got server code, xml-parsing, file i/o, database access, html-output, etc. - all functionality provided to me because I've done the work to set up the C build environment to support it. And, I think, I can be quite productive in C as a result.
I've done it .. let me know if you want any help. I've got a fully working OpenGL ES demo ported to the NDK and functioning as a regular Android app ..
Hooray for the Judeo-Christian bias in this article. You're a "loner" if you just want to sit by yourself and eat, or a "member" if you hang with a clique .. Sheesh.
Log into delicious using the web form (not the bookmark bar) and discover: all your bookmarks are still there. The only thing thats not working is the delicious bookmark bar with ff4 ..
Calendar Apps could learn a thing or two from another time-management segment of applications: DAW/Sequencers. All of these problems have already been addressed in the DAW world, albeit for smaller time scales ..
The Open Pandora runs all Commodore software pretty well, is portable, has a decent keyboard, has USB Host and Device, WLAN too, and is an awesome little Linux box to boot ..
(As for your Pravetz, I wish I had a Pravetz 8D - Oric Atmos clone! Still got my Atmos..)