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The infamous quote goes

"The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language."

Do you have a specific example? I wrote programs in Z80, AVR, x86/amd64 and MIPS assembly. In my experience writing C is MUCH easier.

But C allows for just as much foot-shooting, thus the joke. (The quote is meant to be humorous)