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[–] 16422705? ago 

If you can't hack C you'll never make it as a programmer and you should never even try. In fact, I'd say you should start with ASM to know how computers really work.

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[–] 16422712? ago 

hahahahahahaha

That's soooooooooooo untrue. There are soooooo many programmers who won't touch C. Let's start with Fortran.

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[–] 16424309? ago 

There are soooooo many programmers who won't touch C.

And none of them is worth their salt.

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[–] 16422711? ago 

bro, people are trying to communicate across the world and store and analyze data

not everyone gives a fuck about automating your hotpocket and poptart meals via text message.

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[–] 16422714? ago 

Plus, everything's moving to the cloud, so ASM will only be for people who are doing OS level stuff, soon enough.

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[–] 16422694? ago 

The reason why you should learn C is because most programming languages are derived from C in their syntax. Meaning that if you know how to use C, you know how to use 80% of the commonly used languages. IE, Java, C++, PHP, C#, you get it.

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[–] 16422704? ago 

really awful novice reason to learn C … you are almost lying.

C, C++ for performance , but like a stick shift, its the most difficult to master

all the other ones are literally like learning a different language in that you can say the same thing in every world language, you can program the same thing in every programming language

and if you cant then you must be a journalist that doesnt know how to code, idiot

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[–] 16423528? ago 

all the other ones are literally like learning a different language in that you can say the same thing in every world language, you can program the same thing in every programming language

Just because something might be possible in another language, it doesn't mean it is going to be as elegant to do. For example it would be a pain to do denotative continuous time programming in C, because C sucks at making abstractions. Just because a language being Turing complete means you can do any computation, it doesn't necessarily mean that you would want to do that computation with that language. As an aside, Turing completeness is overrated and leads to problems such as not being able to prove if your program enters an infinite loop doing nothing.

>>12729507

>>12729518

Neither of your posts include them saying, "Learn to code", or a paraphrase of that.

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[–] 16422709? ago 

Checked.

Also, there are massive pitfalls that you won't know about just coming from C/CPP. Like how the hell garbage collection is to be used, with a REAL OOPL.

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[–] 16422696? ago 

< Learn C

< Write bugs

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[–] 16418863? ago 

Asking a total newbie to learn C first is just short of setting them up for failure.

Thats the point. Set the journo-fags up for failure.