This subject has been covered extensively, but rarely in the popular press. One correction: C wasn't "popularized" in 1977. It was available inside Bell Labs an

This subject has been covered extensively, but rarely in the popular press. One correction: C wasn't "popularized" in 1977. It was available inside Bell Labs and in a few C.S. departments on early PDP-11 Unix versions, but it did not really become popular until the late 1980s, when it became a viable choice for development on MS-DOS and Windows (with some ugly extensions to handle 16-bit address segments).