Comment by i2talics

I have had the suspicion for a while now, that any attempted discussions about the merits of C's design that try to connect this to its success, are missing a massive part of the picture if they don't mention UNIX.

We don't make this mistake about JavaScript; nobody tries to argue that the confusing semantics of the "var" keyword or the "==" operator somehow were actually instrumental to its success. It's obvious that JavaScript won because it was what was on the web. Maybe C is not much different.