> "Who Says C is Simple?"
People who don't know what "simple" means and confuse it with "easy".
https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2017/01/02/simple-is-not-ea...
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
"Easy" things almost always lead to astonishing complexity.
Also it's easy to see just how complex C is: Have a look at a formal description of it! (And compare to a truly simple language like e.g. LISP).
https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics/tree/master/semant...
In contrast some basic Lambda calculus language semantics fit 0.5 of a page in K.