C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. While accidents of history surely helped, it evidently satisfied a need for a system implementation language e

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. While accidents of history surely helped, it evidently satisfied a need for a system implementation language efficient enough to displace assembly language, yet sufficiently abstract and fluent to describe algorithms and interactions in a wide variety of environments. -- Dennis M. Ritchie (in "The Development of the C Language" [1]) [1] http://heim.ifi.uio.no/inf2270/programmer/historien-om-C.pdf http://heim.ifi.uio.no/inf2270/programmer/historien-om-C.pdf