How can C not support more styles of development than Perl or C++? both are, or were, written in C. The first "compilers" for C++ actually translated to C so C has to be able to do OO (albiet not in a fashion you would want to read).

Of course you can do OO development with effort in raw C - as you could in perl 4 come to that. But there is no support in the core language for methods, classes, inheritance, etc. You have to build it yourself. So I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that Lisp or Perl or Ruby support certain development styles that C does not.