Can't wait till C dies off!

https://lwn.net/Articles/797828/

>>24
Where are modern ALGOL compilers? Seems like something else happened before the C-takeover.
Also, C made "hacker culture" possible and those dangerous buffer overflows make rooting your smartphone or video game console possible. Without C you would be renting time on expensive locked-in mainframe writing in some dialect of Ada/Basic/Fortran.

>>24
C won because your elitist, mainframe worhsipping academics didn't expect micro-computer(PDPs, and later PC) revolution stealing their "hard-earned" programmer prestige.
C was a cheap,quick-fix solution for micro-computer programming that answered the average micro-computer hacker's needs - it enabled raw flexibility and adapted to new architectures as needeed.
Meanwhile academics and businesses bet on mainframes and "hi-tech" languages that traded performance and portability for safety and predictable output - and due market forces, went the way of LISP machines(another specialized elitist mainframe). Those languages designers didn't bother with plebeian micro-computer users and their needs,(except BASIC and Pascal, which were of course much slower than C).
People denigrating PDPs today have no clue how influential they were at establishing personal computing and hacker culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1