I have mixed feelings about this, but I cannot disagree with it.
a. I haven't written a program in C in over 10 years. I wrote software 5 days a week for those 10 years.
b. I wouldn't want to write a program in C now.
c. The first "high level" programming language I learned was C, from a book (not K&R C), while travelling in Asia, without a computer. It taught me well, but I immediately went on to other languages.
e. I can't shake the idea that there is some value to knowing that low level stuff, even though I don't use it much myself.
Maybe linux kernel hackers will keep it alive. I know game programmers use it a lot as well. But for the majority of us, it's kind of an arcane skill now.
a. I haven't written a program in C in over 10 years. I wrote software 5 days a week for those 10 years.
b. I wouldn't want to write a program in C now.
c. The first "high level" programming language I learned was C, from a book (not K&R C), while travelling in Asia, without a computer. It taught me well, but I immediately went on to other languages.
e. I can't shake the idea that there is some value to knowing that low level stuff, even though I don't use it much myself.
Maybe linux kernel hackers will keep it alive. I know game programmers use it a lot as well. But for the majority of us, it's kind of an arcane skill now.