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I fail to see how an understanding of C would make one better at understanding userspace process scheduling or text editors.

• tomsmeding 9y ago
  Even if it doesn't, there are plenty things it does make one better at understanding, like the subjects mentioned in the article.
• asimpletune 9y ago
  You take for granted how almost all popular programming languages have inherited the execution model of C.
• vvanders 9y ago
  May I kindly lay out VSCode and Atom as a counter to your second example? Knowing your allocations and performance at a low level can influence usage of a high level language and have a huge impact.
• UncleEntity 9y ago
  > I fail to see how an understanding of C would make one better at understanding userspace process scheduling or text editors. Can't even count how many times I've read the sources of some program to figure out what some random button does (or is supposed to do) -- back when I messed around with blender I used the code more often than the wiki to figure things out and found tons of bugs that way.