In my view, C is where re-inventing the wheel should have stopped.
The "easier" programming becomes, the more retards start writing soyware, and C was already easy enough.

I would actually split up C++ and Java, because C++ is "we took C and made it worse", but Java is "we took C++ and made it worse", as Java was made as a "let's make something like C++, but make it run on everything using 1 codebase", except what it became is "let's make it like C++, force an overly complex IDE down everybody's throat, make programming into an even bigger hell than C++ already was even though we added a layer of abstraction, and make sure it's a memory hog too by the way because fuck computers".

And then Steve Ballmer copied Java, fixed a few problems, made it Windblows-only, named it "C#", and danced like a monkey on stage while announcing it.