&gt; <i>If by economic you mean &quot;pragmatic&quot; and &quot;engineering considerations&quot;, then yes.</i><p>C didn&#x27;t won because of &quot;engineering&quot; or &quot;pragmatic&quot; reasons, it won because it run faster on cheap hardware, which was a big selling point. It wasn&#x27;t a pragmatic choice, but a stupid and short-sighted one - but those tend to usually win. Computing in the last 30 years was done in spite of, not because of, C.