>When C was created, it’s main competitor was assembly language C was created at a time of great effervescence in programming language design. FORTRAN and COBO

>When C was created, it’s main competitor was assembly language C was created at a time of great effervescence in programming language design. FORTRAN and COBOL were well-entrenched, and it also had to compete against the likes of Algol, Lisp and Pascal. (Also, the correct spelling, in this context, is "its".) >C, however, has it’s flaws, foremost among them: [...] a woefully inadequate standard library Sure, you can't do that much with the standard library alone, but C probably has more libraries overall than any other language in existence. Some of them have rather clunky APIs, but on the other hand they're usually very fast and very well tested.