[civilian]

For certain definitions of "should", sure. Like: I _should_ get some exercise tomorrow. I should take out the trash today instead of tomorrow. A very optional should.

I've got 4 years of professional software experience and the only C I've written is a couple hours on an Arduino device. It's just not that needed or relevant to my work as a web developer. I don't think the article is too focused on web dev, that is where the self-taught developers can most easily insert themselves.

FWIW, dynamic scripting language is redundant.