In short: all the major operating systems, all the high-level language runtimes, all the databases, and all major productivity applications are written in C L

In short: all the major operating systems, all the high-level language runtimes, all the databases, and all major productivity applications are written in C Live in high-level language land for your entire career? but sooner or later a crack is going to open up and the abstraction is going to leak. And on that day, boy will you wish you knew C. </quote>