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This might have been true fifteen years ago but it's not any more.

• reitzensteinm 7y ago
  It's just an instance of "No True Scotsman". What is fully qualified? There are certainly areas of programming where not knowing C is a deal killer, but they are a minor subset of all professional development.
  • sureaboutthis 7y ago
    And, yet, almost every program you use on your computer and phone has at least some portion written in C.
    • oblio 7y ago
      Yes, and my computer and phone run binary machine code through their smashed rock in which we put electricity. I don't know much about the smashed rock nor about electricity (more than high school level knowledge).
• emilfihlman 7y ago
  If a programmer can't understand C or just by looking at the code can't immediately understand it, with C being a really clear language syntax wise, there's a problem.
  • kazinator 7y ago
    Understanding is semantics matter, not merely syntax.