I always liked The Rise of Worse Is Better in explaining why C and its derivatives became the standard. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.

I always liked The Rise of Worse Is Better in explaining why C and its derivatives became the standard. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html