Had a manager in college tell me when implementing a PHP script (instead of Perl or bash) ... "you're a C programmer, aren't you?" My reply, "...yes...why do you ask?" Him: "no self-respecting PPH/Perl scripter would use `strtok` when `split` or `explode` is available!"
Ran into the not-C-ness of Java in college 20y ago, too ... it' so close in so many ways ... but not where I "needed" it to be!
So - what language do you think in?