Customers have been demanding books about the WWW, so book stores have been flooded with titles on whichever garbage-collected language is hot for web developme

Customers have been demanding books about the WWW, so book stores have been flooded with titles on whichever garbage-collected language is hot for web development at the moment. Since the dot-com boom, your average novice trying to put food on the table has been unlikely to pick the C title off the shelf when the Java or Ruby book is far more likely to fetch a job in six months. Until recently, the perceived cost of C/C++ tools for mainstream platforms also made the simple Java downloads far more attractive. Just getting started learning to program myself in 2000, I remember Perl and Java were the things, and PHP a year later. I had to go out of my way later on on to learn C.