I'm almost speechless.  My progression was Basic, Pascal, C (and later
Fortran, Lisp, no Cobol, I did an Ada Compiler so Ada I guess).  Then
on to awk, perl, tcl, I tried to like C++ but couldn't, tried to like
Rust, Go, D, and couldn't. 

If you think any of those other languages remotely approach the elegance
of C, I just don't know what to say.

C is beautiful, you look at the code and you can see what the hardware
will be doing but it isn't assembler.