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by stream_fusion 3997 days ago
It's arguably faster and of more benefit to learn OO in an OO language, and then work backwards to figure out ways to implement those strategies in C (eg. polymorphism using structs with arrays of function pointers, or win32 send_message constructs).

It's similar with functional programming. Figuring out folds, pattern matching and monads is probably easiest in haskell or Ocaml/F#. The decision to apply those techniques in other languages without native support then becomes a judgement about the benefit.