I've never heard anyone informed bash C. C++ and Java, yes, but not C. Even people who've never used it tend to know that C has a domain at which (a) it excels, and (b) it's really the only credible option.

There's actually no such thing as a bad language. I enjoy language wars as much as anyone else, but languages are only good or bad relative to the type of problem they're being used for.

For example, what makes C++ and Java odious is that people try to use them for inappropriate purposes. They aren't platonically "evil" languages, and they weren't designed by stupid people; they're just inappropriate for over 90 percent of what modern programmers have to do in their professional lives. When people need high-level features and don't have them, they tend to roll their own-- badly. This is Greenspun's Tenth Rule and the heart of those god-awful "design patterns".

C++ and Java, for all that, also have domains in which they're the appropriate languages to use. They're just very small.