High level system programming languages are about 10 years older than C, which in its early days only cared to target the PDP-11 model used for the first UNIX rewrite.
Authors just chose to ignore what was already out there and do their own thing instead.
Well I guess it is lesson for both: Those who think technology is better because it is so successful and who think technology will be successful because it is so much better than other things.
Authors just chose to ignore what was already out there and do their own thing instead.
UNIX's success in the universities made the rest.