This web orientated world is build on C. The interpreters, databases, servers are mostly written in C. The web has meant that companies now have access to more

This web orientated world is build on C. The interpreters, databases, servers are mostly written in C. The web has meant that companies now have access to more data then they can process so high performance code is becoming more important. Also, too many web apps don't care about the performance of their code because they just put an interface on something trivial. But there is a huge range of problems that require on-demand high performance.