>>30
But because
a programmer
will have to re-invent the wheels whenever a new piece of hardware comes along, C won't die. It can't.
Unless some other, better, high low-level language comes along and is both as efficient and descriptive (or more so) than C, and people decide to slowly change over. Which I don't see happening within the next decade, unless some crazy new hardware springs about and there's a completely different hardware paradigm or something (quantum computing? lol, rite.)