{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"loveydoe's status on Saturday, 06-Dec-14 04:35:35 UTC","author_name":"loveydoe","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/loveydoe","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3750024","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/9619\" class=\"url\" title=\"Techdisk\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">techdisk<\/span><\/a><\/span> C is, in fact, the predecessor to both C++ and C#, which are both mostly supersets of C.  C++ has access to all of C's functionality via the &lt;c*&gt; headers, but has automated garbage collection and an OOP system.  I would argue that idiomatic C++ and C# are higher-level than C, and Java is around the same level as idiomatic C#."}