I will always have a soft spot for C. It was my first language. I wrote my first linked list in C. 30 seconds later I had my first segfault. C was the entra

I will always have a soft spot for C. It was my first language. I wrote my first linked list in C. 30 seconds later I had my first segfault. C was the entrance to the rabbit hole for me. I went down through assembly language, down through logic design, circuit design, and transistor theory, all the way down to fabrication and quantum mechanics. It was a long time before I came back from that trip. Today, I wouldn't use C for everything, or even for many things, but I'm glad I know it and I'm glad it's the substratum that holds most everything else together. I'm glad because C is an idea you can hold in your head. I can look at old C, I can look at new C, and it's all pretty sensible. (Excepting macro abuse, deliberate obfuscation, or gross incompetence.) It's hard to say that about most any other language.