Comment by galaxyLogic

I started programming in "high-level languages" like Pascal, Lisp, Smalltalk and Prolog. I then had to do a project in C. It felt clumsy at first. But then I got it, the pointer arithmetic, and I felt empowered by it. I felt "closer to the machine". The machine felt more like friend. I felt "C doesn't lie" because its computational model corresponds so closely to the hardware. Just saying most any language can be fun.