I would go further and say that how modern computers work at the level that interests most people is somewhat based on C. It would be very different with anothe

I would go further and say that how modern computers work at the level that interests most people is somewhat based on C. It would be very different with another hardware abstraction paradigm such as Lisp Machines (as their name suggests), but that's not what we have :). EDIT: I was going to update my comment a bit now that I thought more about it and that I'm on a computer rather than a mobile phone, but in the meantime jerf posted a very good reply to the parent comment so just read that ^^.