Make Quote by Dennis Ritchie

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

“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

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

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

— Brian Kernighan

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

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the…

— Dennis Ritchie

“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

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 in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming,…

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Mark Pearce