You can easily see the answer to this question when you try to write (and copmpile, and package, and use as a library in another software) in C any of the examples written in higher-level dynamic languages (Clojure, in my case, or Python, Julia, etc. if you prefer that).

Compare the number of LOC or any other metric. Once you have high-level access to underlying algorithms (implemented in whatever native technology, but hidden), it is much, much, simpler to work at high-level.