> Forsaking C means forsaking anything below the level of abstraction at which one happens to currently work. That's trivially true. Pick anything as your bott

> Forsaking C means forsaking anything below the level of abstraction at which one happens to currently work. That's trivially true. Pick anything as your bottom abstraction layer, you can almost certainly find something below. Unless you're working on the foundations of mathematics or trying to come up with theories of quantum gravity you haven't hit the bottom of the abstractions. It's also not as though C is the bottom layer even for programming. There's assembly. Then HDLs like Verilog or VHDL. Then electrical engineering... You have to stop somewhere. My knowledge spans from some electrical engineering through C up to Python/Java/Lisp levels, but I don't (currently) know much of anything about Javascript or actual semiconductor engineering or more than basic physics... C is pretty good as a foundation for programmers. It's terrible as a foundation for computer engineers, and it's pretty much at or above the ceiling for what's expected of electrical engineers. It's not guaranteed to remain a good foundation for programmers. Massively parallel architectures like GPUs don't tend to fit well into C's abstract machine model.