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C is great, because I can spend more time building linked lists, btrees, and other computer sciency on the clock than the stuff that actually makes the company money - business software.
Despite the lack of any clear indicators of sarcasm (/s etc.), I can see your sarcasm very clearly :-) Nice try, trying to hide it.

You may not appreciate the value of C, since you consider it to be a thing to make useless toys of no value, but there is a great number of people who can do magic, when given the power and flexibility of C.

If you look closely, I can guarantee that almost everything involved in bringing your message to me, and to others on HN, primarily, if not solely, relies on C language to do what it does. All kinds of processors, device drivers, OS kernels, web servers, databases, language runtimes, etc. all have C (or its derivative, C++) to blame.

So your sarcasm is not really appreciated, at least in some circles :-)

I was being serious. I'd rather write what I find interesting. CS fundamentals are interesting to me. I'm not implementing linked lists in C++; the standard library is for that. Please don't flame bait
Interesting paper, thanks for sharing. C is and remains indeed a very useful language.