I think that we must see C always in the context of assembly language. Pascal and C really helped things moving forward in terms of abstractions. C seems hard n

I think that we must see C always in the context of assembly language. Pascal and C really helped things moving forward in terms of abstractions. C seems hard now and it is, however, assembler is way harder and when things started to evolve from 8bit to 16 and 32bit computers, we were all glad that machine language was something from the past. Same goes in most part to BASIC.