6502 and Z80 had not existed yet when C was begot for the PDP-11 architecture. Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as i

6502 and Z80 had not existed yet when C was begot for the PDP-11 architecture. Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as it had been conceived for a 16-bit architecture. So what? There are C compilers for 68HC08 68HC11 MCU's as well. Yet, C has outlived «many languages offering the same "low level" capabilities of C».