Help me decide D or C

[Alexandre]

On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:30:44 UTC, berni wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
>> [...]
>
> In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years ago 
> and it's not worth while to learn it if you are not interested 
> in the history of programming or you have to learn it, because 
> you need to maintain software which is allready written in C. 
> But that's my oppinion; others may have a different sight.
>
> [...]

Could you elaborate more about C being a burden? I have read so 
many people saying C gives a great foundation and should be 
everyone's first language. Now I am confused.