If you haven't before, you should read the history on the C language; it's pretty interesting given its tight connection to the history of Unix.
It turns out there is a programming language called A [2], but it has no relation to C given that it's descended from functional languages. C was descended from B, but there was no A as B was created as a minimal version of one called BCPL [1].
tl;dr if you program in your robot in A, I will be suitably impressed
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(prog...guage)#History
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A+_(programming_language)
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