Great quote. I had never read that one. The irony of language wars about the monolith that is C vs. the many higher-level languages that allow a human to code according to his mental abstractions and cognitive ability, rather than memorizing machine-specific, or os-specific facts that don&#x27;t translate over to newer machine architectures. All this on HN, running on a Lisp, Arc, that once sat upon an academic scheme now called Racket.<p>I agree C is necessary for low-level programming, but for the meat of all the other applications and usages, higher-level languages are needed. I don&#x27;t mind programming certain things in C, but I thoroughly enjoy the mental exercise when programming in the J programming language, Lisp, or Forth. Yes, Forth. C programmers can have the Earth; I would like to be coding with the fellas who design mission-critical software for satellites like Rosetta, and groups like NASA and the ESA, using Forth in Rosetta&#x27;s case [1].<p>Slim Whitman sold more records than the Beatles, or so I think I heard that on a late-night TV commercial back in the 80s, but I never owned a record from him ;)<p><pre><code>  [1]  http:&#x2F;&#x2F;adsabs.harvard.edu&#x2F;full&#x2F;2003ESASP.532E..72B</code></pre>