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The point may be that time is a scarce resource and you better focus on what's important for you. C may be it, but I think Ned's point is that people might be l
by hashtag-til 3y ago
The point may be that time is a scarce resource and you better focus on what's important for you. C may be it, but I think Ned's point is that people might be learning C thinking it will give them a skill that it actually doesn't.
- whateveracct 3y agoI find thinking about time like that ends up counterproductive. You can read K&R and code/read a little C and never build a single thing in it and have it be worth it. For instance, I wrote C in school but basically never use it professionally or for my hobbies (directly at least). But I'd say learning it was worth it - my school curriculum didn't "waste" my scarce resource of time. You do end up learning to think about computers in a different way.