Point taken. Although I personally don't see C as "another" programming language, more like a system building-block, closer to a portable processor binary format :-)

When I wrote kernel modules I used C; today I'm writing an in-memory cache for a mulithreaded webserver. It has to maintain user-sesions in memory across several load-balancing servers. It has a multi-stage storage system. It has a queue manager that maintains a private queue for all concurrent users of the system; everything dynamically scheduled in realtime with a bunch of matrix munching algorithms. Allot of intricate stuff that I would have written in C when I didn't know better.

I would still write C code though, but only if I absolutely must, as in your case.

Regards.