To John is this backwards ?
"C is a low level language so if you know C you can usually use/learn a higher level language like Lisp, VB(A), etc fairly easily."
Like lisp 4 lines of code C is like 10 lines of code.
Backwards in what sense?
Languages such as LISP/VBA are considered high level because many operations are
abstracted away and instead performed by the interpreter/compiler; consequently, programs may be written far more succinctly using relatively readable 'natural' language rather than machine code, generally at the sacrifice of power and performance; whereas low level languages (such as Assembly) are 'closer to the metal', and consequently written in language more readable to a machine than a human, with far fewer operations abstracted, consequently requiring significantly more code to perform the same operation as a high-level language (in which the equivalent machine code is implemented through the design of the language itself, rather than the programmer).