While I agree that all programmers should learn how computers and compilers work. Learning C would just be a mean to that end. You could easily replace "Learn C

While I agree that all programmers should learn how computers and compilers work. Learning C would just be a mean to that end. You could easily replace "Learn C" with "Learn Assembly" in this post. I think these type of posts reinforces the over-emphasis on languages, frameworks, and tools in general we have in this industry. People restrict themselves into camps of certain tools and then use that specific tool as a general purpose tool for all problems they face in a sort of nationalistic way. And then go on the internet and start arguing over which over-used hammer is better, so to speak. Now, what is worse is that newcomers to programming quickly adopt this attitude which makes it even harder for them to learn the right things. The other day I made a trip to the Academy for Software engineering NYC[1] and it was a great experience watching kids learn how to program. They were using Python to learn. However, I was really disappointed when a few kids expressed interest in learning Foo language because someone told them that Foo was the best language ever! I told them that after learning how to compute, they can go on and learn all the languages they want to learn and even create their own. [1]: http://www.afsenyc.org/ http://www.afsenyc.org/