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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 28, 2012 20:05 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Well, obviously knowing how CPUs work and how they are usually programmed is kind of important for an expert programmer, and you just learn C as part of that.

But of course, if you are a non-programmer trying to write some program as fast as possible, learning C is probably not the best route, and you are probably better off learning the basics of an high-level language, and proceeding mostly by Google search + copy&paste.


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