It's what they paid me to do in the 90s. That was a compelling reason to use C. (of course, one employer appropriately used C as a portable assembler, and res

It's what they paid me to do in the 90s. That was a compelling reason to use C. (of course, one employer appropriately used C as a portable assembler, and respected it as such, for the purposes of developing a cross compiler and tool emulations for an older minicomputer environment; the next was doing (batch) "business applications" and foolishly spent too little on hardware and too much wasted effort on application development) Pascal (Modula) did much the same, SAFELY, but the money wasn't put into compiler optimization :-( Interesting that the GNU compiler collection now includes a very efficient Ada compiler.