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C lacks just enough “modern language features”, by design, that students are forced to be vaguely aware of memory layout, memory management, ref vs copy, shallo
by MeetingsBrowser 28d ago
C lacks just enough “modern language features”, by design, that students are forced to be vaguely aware of memory layout, memory management, ref vs copy, shallow copy vs deep copy, maybe even calling convention, etc.
It’s also popular enough that there is an abundance of high quality learning resources for beginners.
No other language threads that needle as well as C.
- pjmlp 28d agoProvided examples from 1978 and 1983 languages do that just as well, unless you mean by 1978, C design was too primitive, or even when compared with languages like PL/I and NEWP from 1966 and 1961 respectively, which then I fully agree with.