That's not the only reason, there is also simplicity, static typing and performance.
I think the only meaningful benefit here is performance.
Simplicity is at best determined by the nature of the problem and at worst a completely subjective opinion for C.
Similarly, static typing is not usually something the programmer should care about that much. You need to know which paradigm your language uses, of course, but beyond that it does not matter all that much. IMX, you're more concerned with type safety, and C is not fully type safe like, say, Java is.
Yes it's somewhat subjective, but other languages for the use case usually contain a lot more abstractions. They're more complex languages but they might enable less complex solutions to the problem at hand.
IMX, you're more concerned with type safety, and C is not fully type safe like, say, Java is.
I'm concerned with finding errors, preferably at compile time. There have been very few times being fully type safe runtime like the jvm have done much for me compared to the java compiler. If I wanted more down that road then rust or ada would probably be better.
Measure the complexity of a language as the number of axioms required to define it. In reality, the C standard is incredibly brief, defining the core language in ~150 pages. This makes C simpler than languages like C++ and Java and the definition is not at all subjective and is useful.
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I think the only meaningful benefit here is performance.
Simplicity is at best determined by the nature of the problem and at worst a completely subjective opinion for C.
Similarly, static typing is not usually something the programmer should care about that much. You need to know which paradigm your language uses, of course, but beyond that it does not matter all that much. IMX, you're more concerned with type safety, and C is not fully type safe like, say, Java is.
Yes it's somewhat subjective, but other languages for the use case usually contain a lot more abstractions. They're more complex languages but they might enable less complex solutions to the problem at hand.
I'm concerned with finding errors, preferably at compile time. There have been very few times being fully type safe runtime like the jvm have done much for me compared to the java compiler. If I wanted more down that road then rust or ada would probably be better.
Measure the complexity of a language as the number of axioms required to define it. In reality, the C standard is incredibly brief, defining the core language in ~150 pages. This makes C simpler than languages like C++ and Java and the definition is not at all subjective and is useful.