The Ur-Language is probably verilog, or at least the raw instructions of the platform; and C isn't much closer to those instructions than many of its alternativ

The Ur-Language is probably verilog, or at least the raw instructions of the platform; and C isn't much closer to those instructions than many of its alternatives, thanks to optimizing compilers and the differences between the true form of the computational model of the platform and the imaginary one that the C standard reflects.