Back in the day, people told me that after learning C, learning anything else about programming would be much easier. I think I understand now. C hits a sweet

Back in the day, people told me that after learning C, learning anything else about programming would be much easier. I think I understand now. C hits a sweet spot between high and low level programming, allowing you to unobstructedly move either up or down the abstraction hierarchy. Transforming a piece of C code to machine instructions in your head is manageable, and so is transforming high-level abstractions to C code.