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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 10:19 UTC (Fri) by Otus (guest, #67685)
In reply to: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) by dskoll
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

I haven't used tcl/tk, so apparently I've missed the one that works.

Trying to read the source of any "modern" GUI app written in C is painful.

(Not that those written in other languages are necessarily much better.)


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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 21:48 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

The source of a well structured, OOCSS web page can be surprisingly nice to read. Even adding some javascript it remains good enough to understand on the fly. That is perhaps why web applications are taking the world by storm.

Speaking of javascript, I think that C is good to learn, object oriented is fine, but any developer that doesn't know a functional language is missing out a lot (and doesn't know what is missing). I come from a Java background and I know a bunch of people like that.

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