university, programming languages (-)
my university teaches C as a first and main language
if universities stopped doing that, C would die really really really fast - it's not a useful or valuable language anymore, aside from the fact that people keep being taught it!
university, programming languages (-)
@lizardsquid C is valuable for embedded systems developers, as there's a compiler from C to just about any processor you can imagine. Even the weird ones.
That's why I think it's held on for so long. It's the only option in a lot of cases. Of course, that's not to say that it should be.
university, programming languages (-)
@rachel @lizardsquid Learn C. Then learn C++ and the templates system. Then learn all the other languages. Then you shall know the true way of the world.
university, programming languages (-)
@lizardsquid still better than C++
university, programming languages (-)
@lizardsquid Latin would be more useful, imho
university, programming languages (-)
@lizardsquid mine start with c++
and not even the stl
university, programming languages (-)
@lizardsquid i guess it's valuable in that, like, literally every platform has a C compiler, even really weird ones
but it's not a first language, or a best-practices language, or really anything you should teach as a main language, like you said!