title: What type of programs are best written in C
body: <p>Joel and company expound on the virtues of learning C and how the best way to learn a language is to actually write programs using that use it.  To that effect, which types of applications are most suitable to the C programming language?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:
  I am looking for what C is good at.  This likely does not coincide with the best way of learning C.</p>