A time will come when our entire concept of programming will shift due to advances in hardware unlike what we have today. Consider quantum computers or some biological machine etc.
Those who use C and assembly I imagine would be better equipped to understand the new paradigms. It's best to understand how to implement data structures in their most rudimentary form because implementing them on new platforms becomes easier.
In addition, higher-level idioms become easy to understand if the parts that make up the whole are understood. And underneath all those layers of translation and compilation we have raw assembly and the bare machine.
I also believe efforts like LLVM are actively trying to 'bridge the gap' between both worlds (totally raw VS fully dynamic/scripted). Stuff like emscripten is enabling the "old farts" and the "newfags" to share common ground, and that's amazing... I just hope these youngsters keep learning stuff instead of just piling framework after framework after the new 'hot shit' gets released in a 6 month timeframe.. really, adhd is in full effect, specially in the webdev world, and imho that's hurtful.
"Better tools exist to do this job"
"C is not needed anymore" (Yet no contender has ever come close to it, hehehe --my2c)
There, saved you a ton of reading time.
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