Well, why not? The price tag certainly is what did it for me. I was twelve. C was free, the alternatives were not. By the time I could have paid for one, I’d b

Well, why not? The price tag certainly is what did it for me. I was twelve. C was free, the alternatives were not. By the time I could have paid for one, I’d been writing C for ten years… Nowadays I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot stick.