Some good points in the essay but I have to admit that for me the reason I like C is that it's the first language I ever really did any serious programming in a

Some good points in the essay but I have to admit that for me the reason I like C is that it's the first language I ever really did any serious programming in and the first language that made me think hard. Because of that it just feels like home when I come back to it and I can never really evaluate it without that bias. Its the simplest model of the machine that you can get without going down to assembly. Its the same reason I like riding and fixing bicycles. In both cases sparse resources have kept the design to the bare minimum.