And at the same time we have a whole generation of people that don't know what a tail call is. C might be closer to the metal then most languages but it still i

And at the same time we have a whole generation of people that don't know what a tail call is. C might be closer to the metal then most languages but it still is a leaky abstraction in some places. And anyway, the real problem is not C being complicated. Its that the other alternatives are also perfectly reasonable while also being simpler.