In my experience it is more 'fun' to write C code then to lay down yet another line of boiler-plate high level code. However, it seems to take longer to get things done and the resulting code is also much more error-prone (at least my code that is).
I feel C has more boiler-plate code than any other language I've used, including Java--especially when you consider header files, malloc/free, function call error code inspection, etc.
