PIC programming

I haven't looked at PIC uC's in years. Do they still use their own semi-high
level language, something higher than uP assembly language, but not quite
Basic?

I also just saw a new CPU development system called Rabbit 2000 (doesn't
give me alot of confidence...I can just see it gnawing things) and it comes
with C compiler. I'm reluctant to learn C to write some code.

Thanks

Murray