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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.

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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

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