C teaches you how computer works because a lot of important things are written in some dialect of C. Operating systems and compilers, most important of them. S

C teaches you how computer works because a lot of important things are written in some dialect of C. Operating systems and compilers, most important of them. Surely, if you can manipulate your computer using (almost) nothing but C, there should be something fundamental in it. In language itself and in things that surround it.