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by malokai 4359 days ago
That's a weird sentiment to hold, that less expressive languages should be used to spark interest. If I were learning a first programming language again, I would want to learn a language that let me get going as quickly as possible. It takes a lot more to build something in C than in Python and Python can much more quickly prove to a person learning their first language that programming is worthwhile.
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> That's a weird sentiment to hold, that less expressive languages should be used to spark interest.

Maybe you felt you had to jump in and defend high level languages, and maybe slash the other guy's tires on the way out, but this reads as trollish. Plenty of people working in C find it plenty expressive. Is it "more" or "less" expressive to choose to express different things? I don't think so. This comes off as uninformed C bashing, sadly very common and accepted around here.

The rest of your comment, that it is good for learning or as a first language, makes more sense to me.