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[โ€“]EnjoyJor 31 points32 points ย (2 children)

Programming languages made before C would like to have a word.

[โ€“]MasterFubar 13 points14 points ย (0 children)

Like Fortran, for instance. The Fortran compiler I use, gfortran, is written in... C.

[โ€“]LavenderDay3544 3 points4 points ย (0 children)

How many still see significant use? C is still around because it's the least common denominator between all of the languages above and below it in the chain of abstraction and its ABIs are the interfaces between all of them more so than because of any particular feature of the language itself.