> everyone .. can learn it in a couple of weeks and get coding Not so sure about that. I started on assembly and then C, though did neither professionally. But

> everyone .. can learn it in a couple of weeks and get coding Not so sure about that. I started on assembly and then C, though did neither professionally. But I'd be a bit scared of touching a serious C codebase now. There's so much to think about there that only long experience can really prepare you for. Sure you can cover the language very quickly with K&C (and what fun compared to much dev learning). But although I'm out of touch with the C world now, I suspect it would take a long time to get from there to being more useful than dangerous.