Actually my main moan on C for microcontrollers is
that the compiler is
either expensive or I can't sensibly run it, or both.
Tony, you just like to complain. Every microcontroller I know has a free
C version that can be run on mostly anything, and most microcontrollers can
be programmed even with a PDP-8 :oD
Wake up, we aren't in 1960 anymore :o)
Alexandre, your fan :D