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What was nice about C then was that, based on my study of CPUs at the time, you could pretty much get your head around what the CPU was doing. So you could learn the instructions (C) and the machine following them (the CPU).

When I got to modern CPUs it's so complex my eyes glazed over reading the explanation and I gave up trying to understand them.

I was born in the late 80s and C was my first language, in a community college intro to programming class.

I started coding with C and OCaml in 2019. Everything in between these two was so unnatural. With JavaScript as the worst of all

This was my experience with learning programming as well, however, I am 2x younger :)

Introductory programming courses at the University of Arizona were still taught in C when I was a freshman in 2008

Im a decade younger and my university taught C for its intro to programing class.

Granted it was a disaster of a programing class.