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by cd_cd 3429 days ago
sametmax, I think C should be taught after a short course in assembly. Then you can review each compiler you use in terms of what it is likely to do to your source code as you write it. But I agree that for most developers C is probably too low level for day-to-say work. Therefore, you could loss a lot of potential developers but I think such an approach would make for better engineers. In fact I can see the notion of any compiled language becoming an anachronism outside system programming and possibly AAA game programming.