programming languages

>Respectable languages
Lisp, Haskell, Ruby, C#, Forth, Smalltalk

>"I like to go with the latest trendy things and pretend I know about programming but I need my hand held and can't handle a real language"
Python

>User friendly or "noob" languages:
Visual Basic, Java, PHP

>"What? Oh I forgot about those, no one cares" languages:
FORTRAN, C++

>Laughably useless in the real world:
C

>Full retard
C, Python

Why are all decent operating systems written in C?