I wanted something relative to ANSI C, which has no closures, no concurrency, no garbage collection, and a standard library consisting of stone tools, without i

I wanted something relative to ANSI C, which has no closures, no concurrency, no garbage collection, and a standard library consisting of stone tools, without invoking the horrible term "Very High Level Language", which implies Visual Basic and copypasta. ;) Perhaps I should have gone for the Monty Pythonesque "higher level than C but lower level than ASP.Net" term?