WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEARN C?

FOR REALS? WHATS THE POINT? TOO MUCH MICRoMANAGED BULLSHIT THAT GETS YOU NO WHERE EXCEPT A HOLE IN THE HEAD. BESIDES, YOU CANT USE C FOR ANYTHING USEFUL!!!! WHY DONT YOU LEARN A REAL LANGUAGE LIKE JAVA OR C#??? OR BETTER YET, PHP.

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Its a matter of abstraction vs efficiency. Highly abstract languages make expressing thoughts clearer and more succinct to the programmers eye, but hide important details that are needed for making a program run efficiently. C programs are necessarily verbose because the programmer requires explicit control down to the level of how a program will execute at hardware level