Why do we teach C?

• small, imperative, procedural language

• available on very wide-variety of hardware architectures, from IoT devices to supercomputers

• well defined by (formal) accessible standards

• three contemporary compiler suites, each available on three contemporary platforms

• well supported by 3rd-party cross-platform open-source and proprietary libraries

• used to implement most operating-systems and other programming languages and libraries

• provides software bridges to, and connecting, other programming languages