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Comment by MeetingsBrowser

Fully agree. C sits in an almost perfect level of abstraction for students to get a vague sense of how the computer runs code.

Those that don’t need low level details can spend their professional career in languages like python and JavaScript while still have a sense of what lies beneath the abstraction.

For those that do want or need to go deeper, C is an excellent jumping off point into ASM and arch specifics.

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