[jedbrown]

Most everything here is subjective, inaccurate, or outdated by C99, save Fortran's multi-dimensional array handling which is legitimately superior to C despite partial reconciliation by VLAs.

[nickpsecurity]

Well, darn, there goes that. I'll have to re-examine it with C99 reference to assess it's accuracy.

[pjc50]

I don't think it's quite that bad, but "for numeric programming" is a very important caveat here. As is "define higher-level".

[nickpsecurity]

I think higher level would be effecient, English-like representation that's closer to algorithm pseudo-code than managing machine details.