You can thank Rob Pike for that, about a decade ago he wrote a Google Plus post arguing that one of the things C brought to the table was that it essentially wa

You can thank Rob Pike for that, about a decade ago he wrote a Google Plus post arguing that one of the things C brought to the table was that it essentially was portable assembly compared to most other high level language projects at the time. I guess the tiny sliver of nuance that the "essentially" added was quickly lost.