Bloody Quote by Brian Kernighan

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not…

— Erik Naggum

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

“Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is…

— Wiki Books

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

“a C compiler. A compiler is a program that converts C code into executable machine code.”

— Wiki Books

It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

— Jamie Zawinski

“Unlike most computer languages, C allows the programmer to write directly to memory. Key constructs in C such as structs, pointers and arrays are…

— Wiki Books

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly…

— Dennis Ritchie

“minimum software requirements to program in C is a text editor, as opposed to a word processor. A plain text Notepad Editor can be…

— Wiki Books

... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

— Larry Wall

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

— Dennis Ritchie

The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and…

— Dennis Ritchie