Definitions Quote by Dennis Ritchie

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

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages…

— Eric S. Raymond

“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

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

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

— Mark Pearce

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

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

C is the assembly language of Tcl.

— Karl Lehenbauer

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C…

— Bertrand Meyer

The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding…

— 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

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of…

— Verity Stob