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C is also a language that's very often taught in universities, the only other low-level language taught is typically assembly, and this is at once lacks many of the higher-level features of C, and is not portable, making it difficult to make an implementation targeting multiple platforms. If you want to write a compiler then chances are you are going to use the best language for the job that you are aware of, I think many people are also not even aware that there are alternatives which are meaningfully different, like Ada, so they don't know that it might be of some utility to actually learn these languages in order to bootstrap their compiler. Regardless one should consider Hume's law: can't get and ought from an is, that is you can't reason directly from descriptive statements to prescriptive statements.