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What the hell is a "general purpose language"?
there's no such term, a language can be imperative, functional, it can support various features such as safe strings, regex, whatever, namespaces, strict typing etc.
I also mentioned that in my post:

> Paradigms, features, etc are more important than syntax.

and no, you don't know C. fuck the "basic-to-intermediate".
You either know or don't know a language, and in your case you don't know C so get your ass working and learn it properly.
You have to know everything about the language. (with exception to complex numbers and that stuff, which are almost never needed)