Except that C is all over the stack that most people work in every day, and not just way down at the level of the OS. It's astounding to me how many of the peo

Except that C is all over the stack that most people work in every day, and not just way down at the level of the OS. It's astounding to me how many of the people talking about Python, Ruby, and PHP as moments of great liberation from C appear not to realize how many of the most useful libraries in these languages are really just gentle wrappers around C libraries. Someone needs to write that not-particularly-low-level code, and someone needs to hook it up to these miraculous high-level languages. The people who do this have always been a quieter bunch than the Pythonistas, the Rubyists, the Node-nuts, and whoever else, but damn do they know what they're doing. And they certainly don't go around talking about how C is obsolete, only for device drivers, and has nothing to do with their "stack."