It's not that far from the truth. C was designed to be very close to the machine and allows mixing in of inline assembly. This latter feature is almost unthink

It's not that far from the truth. C was designed to be very close to the machine and allows mixing in of inline assembly. This latter feature is almost unthinkable in what most people would call high level languages today (Java, C#, Swift, etc). For better or worse, Java is increasingly being used in embedded scenarios. Blu-ray players are a prime example, but televisions, settop boxes of various kinds also use Java these days.