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Why should you learn to program in C?

On the other hand, there are many reasons why you might not want to use C later in life. It's missing a lot of features of modern program languages, including:

For most problems where minimizing programmer time and maximizing robustness are more important than minimizing runtime, other languages are a better choice. But for CS223 we'll be using C.

If you want to read a lot of flaming about what C is or is not good for, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CeeLanguage.


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