In embedded application why c is most poppular? [closed]

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still yet i have seen that mos开发者_JAVA技巧t of the embedded application are written in c. Most of the libraries are written in c. Device-driver are written in c.

So i want to ask you is there any logical reason behind this?

(My apologies if this post sounds silly/stupid. I thought I'd ask here. Ignoring these core bits never made anyone a better programmer.)

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There are many reasons, including but not limited to:

• It has access to many low level functions not accessible from many other languages.
• It has existed for many many years and has lots of developers that are familiar with it.
• If written well it's extremely efficient.
• It gives almost complete control over memory etc.
• It's very portable, largely due to the myriad of compilers written for it.

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Because of Dennis Ritchie. C is easily the most portable language.