I note that the biggest mistake probably comes from C itself. If only it had chosen for assignment a syntax such as :

  x <- 5;

It would be more clear that "the shit on the right" goes to that garbage on the left. But no, they had to use the `=` sign, as if saving one character where more important than not changing the meaning of one of the most used sign of all mathematics. And now nearly all popular language is making the same damn mistake.