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'simple in Ada … a pain in C … what kinds of things' Multitasking, object assignment (eg a:=b; where a and b are structures or arrays, not just ints or chars, with the compiler generating REP MOVs as appropriate), dynamic array sizes, multi (vs static/not static) level name space, the…
I would slightly amend your statements: The news is that *any high level language* is _already_ … … is great for structured programming but when you need to do "fiddly" things, *assembly* is definitely the language of choice. C allows *the same kind as assembly of* integration of modules ……
I'd venture that in 20 years C will be used as much as assembly is today. Large programs (unfortunately the wave of the future) will be written in a more structured language that will probably be a Pascal descendant.