I think one's love/comfort with C depends one's path into software development. It was my first language (aside from Basic). It has it's quirks and you can do some really bad/dangerous things when writing large apps.

That said, given my comfort level and tendency to be more explicit rather than tricky, my C coding ends up surprising me a week or so later when I go back and realize "even at 2am" I did the right thing.

It's also a fun language to mess with junior programmers with.