I use C because I use BSDs and Linux and it's often the shortest route when needing to do something that can't be done trivially with a shell script. The docume

I use C because I use BSDs and Linux and it's often the shortest route when needing to do something that can't be done trivially with a shell script. The documentation is all in man pages, the headers are available in /include, and it's easy to bypass annoying things like type and memory safety when I don't need them, which is most of the time for the small throwaway programs I usually write.