I credit a lot of my success as a developer to starting out with C as my primary language. Of course, I graduated an Electrical Engineer, so I might be biased.

I credit a lot of my success as a developer to starting out with C as my primary language. Of course, I graduated an Electrical Engineer, so I might be biased. :) My first gig was writing firmware for disk drives with some of the most talented people I've ever had the privilege of working with, and starting w/ a solid foundation in C gave me an appreciation for how "things work" at a very low level. I think it must be harder to understand what compilers and interpreters actually do without that background. But decent article overall.