You need to re-read the OP&#x27;s linked article.<p>It&#x27;s not an academic paper or even anything like.<p>It&#x27;s. Notes. From. A. Presentation.<p>It&#x27;s not the entire history of compiler languages and the lineages and branchings thereof which make Game of Thrones look like Jane and Dick.<p>If you&#x27;re going to spend four sentences <i>speaking</i> about a core language, <i>that is still in active use</i>, <i>that the audience will have heard of</i> then C is a far better goto language than any of the ones listed above.<p>&gt; <i>All were used to write OS&#x27;s on minimal hardware with more readability and safety than C.</i><p>Awesome. That decade abended years ago. They are no longer germane to a discussion at a conference in 2015, unless you&#x27;re deep diving in language lineage.<p>Which the author clearly wasn&#x27;t.<p>Edit: my bad. It was seven sentences.