Comment by random_upvoter

C is simple in the sense that it is very possible to have the whole language "in your head" and at one point in my career I did. Something I would never claim about C++. Yes, you can write atrociously bad C code that is hard to parse and hard to predict, as the webpage demonstrates. All this can be trivially avoided by having the most basic coding standards. And yes I'm sure that some of the modern alternatives to C are better. But all in all, C is simple.