That is not the biggest problem. My problem is that people do not understand basic things (which higher-level programming languages hide). One thing is pointers

That is not the biggest problem. My problem is that people do not understand basic things (which higher-level programming languages hide). One thing is pointers (e.g. how a matrix is represented in a language) and another is the flow of execution. I understand that the utility of C is low when we are talking about web-applications. But the fact is that the concepts should be known. Everyone who writes event-based programs should at least have a rudimentary idea of how it works.