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Wow! Why C? For fun? Practice? Just what you know?

• z92 7y ago
  Because it's still the best language for writing library routines along with a header file, which then can be used from most other languages with least runtime overhead.
• spc476 7y ago
  When I started writing it back in 1999, it was what I knew. I also had a C library for dealing with CGI scripts I wrote from the mid-90s. Also, for several years my website was run off a 486 I had colocated at a company my friend was running, so there was a performance issue as well.