C is a very handy thing to know. There is plenty of C code still out there and the jobs, to me at least, seem easier and easier to find. Many C programmers have migrated to Java and other less intensive languages and now claim ignorance about C. Fewer and fewer schools are turning out new C and C++ programmers. After a long C dryspell, I've been working steadily with C for about six months now, and I don't see it ending.