I kind of want to say it's important for programmers to have some knowledge of C but frankly I'm not sure that's true anymore. There's only been once case in w

I kind of want to say it's important for programmers to have some knowledge of C but frankly I'm not sure that's true anymore. There's only been once case in which I really needed C (because I was programming for a system from the 90s and I only could get C running with the tools I had). As others have said in this thread, it might be useful for you if you end up in embedded devices or other areas of development, but it won't help you for the bulk of applications written in Java / Python or some other higher-level languages.