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Totally agree. Knowing C and a little assembly takes out the magic from other higher level languages. That's a good thing.

• angry_octet 8y ago
  Monads are still a little magical though.
  • Gibbon1 8y ago
    I keep thinking that C could support monads with a little work.
    • MikeLui 8y ago
      "Programmable semicolons."
    • geezerjay 8y ago
      As I see it, adding lambda/anonymous functions would have a transformative impact on the whole language. Adding them to C++ had a similar impact although the language offered some ways to get around the limitation.
      • maxxxxx 8y ago
        Very true. When I look at C# pretty much all the cool stuff they have added relies on lambdas and closures. Same for JavaScript. It's the one feature that enables a ton of other features.