Why are there high level languages?

Why the hell would anyone use Python or Ruby over C. The software should be nice to use. It's not nice when the program is slow as fuck.

Their dynamic nature makes debugging software increasingly hard. Basically developing with these higher level languages takes more time than with C.

Every program should be written in C. In most cases, it would be good to also optimize tight loops with Assembly. This way programs would be fast and fun to use.

Languages such as C# and Java have no point at all. They are essentially crippled versions of C. Limited pointers and limited memory management. The virtual machine takes forever to JIT-optimize the code, thus harming the user experience. Not to mention GC, which slows everything down, providing nothing useful in return. GC is shit.

Then there are these C++-retards. Sure, you can in theory make as fast C++-code as C-code, but is it really worth it? Every C++ program in practice is slower, harder to debug, and harder to develop.

Functional languages, such as Haskell are no answer to problem. They abstract the hardware to hell and are very slow in practice.

So tell me: Why is C and Assembly not used for every program today?

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That's the point. C makes it a lot harder to add bloat

Wrong. Very, very, very wrong. C doesn't do jack shit for you, so what you end up with is a bunch of terrible NIH cobbled together fuckpiles of unstable garbage to make up for the lack of features easily provided by other languages.

How many C or C++ programs out there use refcounting because the language doesn't help at all with memory management? Tons, and that shit is slower and less reliable than GC. How many C programs have to include shitty little brittle faggot-spec interpreters for configuration data and scripting? Tons, because you can't evaluate or compile the language at runtime.

Because C doesn't do anything, that forces the programmers to go all NIH, and you end up with a bunch of Cudders that shit up everything and send us back decades. You need to be shot, for the greater good.