the good old C

the language C, I think is the simplest and most powerful language to program a software. Have learnt other high-end languages till Java, however I feel nothing is as simple and as addictive as C. I remember the days of my graduation when I wrote programs in C for solving problems related to some prime number series, calculus, integration or some programs even for fun - making the com act funny by printing the content in the document backwards, etc! I wonder how the technology has been evovling at a rapid pace..initially it was microprocess which use assembly language codes (very difficult to remember when you really want to write a program) then moved on to high level language like C, C++, SQL, Java, VB, .Net, etc... The area of software programming has been changing rapidly at a pace higher than a processor! and somewhere I feel I am lagging behind at the same pace :(