[masfoobar]

C was the first language covered at my University back in the early 2000s

It was not a problem for me as I was learning Turbo C and Visual C++ 5/6.0 a year or two beforehand.

Everyone else in the class, though, were sooooo frustrated with their "89 errors, 103 Warnings" all because they forgot to add a semicolon in the code.

Truth is they were not getting anywhere to understanding how to write or care about the quality of the code.. leading to proper planning, etc. They would keep changing something to reduce the errors/warnings.

Personally, I think every person has their own journey into the world of programming. For me, I was happy for it to be C, with a bit of Pascal and Visual Basic. For someone else, perhaps Scheme and Javascript. Another maybe Java.

Some developers/programmers, in my opinion, are not for C. controversial ... I know.