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When I learned C back in 1992, it felt primitive and clunky when compared to Turbo Pascal 6 (I used 3.0 and 5.5 before).

Unsafe and lacking all the OO and modular features from Turbo Pascal. I kept on using Turbo Pascal up to Turbo Pascal 1.5 for Windows and a little bit of of Delphi afterwards.

Wirth had me, systems programming with safe languages, I also got to learn about Modula-3 and was able to get hold of Native Oberon for PC.

My relationship with C was quickly replaced by C++, which allowed me to regain some of Pascal's type safety in a world that disdained Niklaus Wirth work and now is looking how to replace the security exploits C semantics brought upon us.

At least modern C++ eschews C programming practices.