1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ loveydoe http://rainbowdash.net/loveydoe http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3750024 @<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#.