Both, the properties that UNIX crowd assigns to C aren't unique.

Most think that way because they never learnt anything other than C and C++.

I see, you thought I meant that C was the only language with this property. No there are plenty of others, I was fully aware of that. I on the other hand thought you meant that JOVIAL in some way was even thinner or more tuned to underlying architecture in some way that made it thinner than C.