C was popular because, if one is familiar with assembler, it takes about an hour...

		WalterBright 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k fo... C was popular because, if one is familiar with assembler, it takes about an hour to become adept at programming in it. It's also an easy language to write a compiler for. At one point I counted over 30 C compilers available for DOS.