> It's like with how people coming from much higher level languages tend to detest C at first, because you have pointers. It seems like needless complexity. You even have to hold C's hand to step through a simple linked list. Why?! WHYYYY?!

Specially when that high level language was Ada, Modula-2, a Pascal dialect like Turbo/Quick Pascal, or a compiled BASIC, yes really "Why?! WHYYYY?!"