I'll be honest, I've not always been a fan of C. I started learning it in 1982/1983 (oh what a giveaway). I still have my tattered 1978 Kernighan and Ritchie book handy. My problem was that I had started to learn Basic and Pascal before I looked at C and every time I looked at it it gave of an... "I'm not finished" vibe.
I eventually found C inescapable and pervasive in both work and hobby. Finally, thanks to somewhat to the Arduino influence, I find C not so bad anymore. I even now find it elegant in it's simplicity at times. I guess it just takes looking at it from a different angle to gain a new appreciation for something you once thought of as disarranged and somewhat sloppy.
And I LOVE THIS comment:
My coding is an art-form, a fusion of Jackson Pollock and Tracey Emin.