Sorry, but I can't agree with that statement (like
no other high-level
language). C is a decent language for systems programming but so are
other languages such as BLISS. C is a terrible language if you have
to throw arrays around (which is why Fortran still rules the roost in
HPTC).
BLISS is known to a very small number of persons, thus irrelevant, and with regards to
arrays, first they are rarely used in advanced programming preferring lists, maps, trees,
etc.. second I never had problems with pointers.