Should high level languages be used to write systems software?
Dennis J. Frailey · 1975
Most of us write our programs in whatever language is most convenient for the problem at hand. Often this means, not so much that the language is well suited to the problem, but simply that it's the best suited of the choices available. Particularly with microprocessors and many minicomputers, we don't have a very wide choice of available software. Perhaps we have only an assembler or only a Basic interpreter.