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I don't really see what the downvotes are about, it seems like anti-intellectualism. My thesis is that if you are wholly ignorant of C and C++, you have a large
by dinkumthinkum 13y ago
I don't really see what the downvotes are about, it seems like anti-intellectualism. My thesis is that if you are wholly ignorant of C and C++, you have a large gap in your knowledge of programming. To wit, you will be unable to understand any systems programming out there; for better or worse that's how it is. This is not to say you are an idiot or something if you don't know C, that is not what is being argued. But this attitude of "don't learn C" is just kind of ignorant to me.
I find the backlash against my view sort of ridiculous to see on "Hacker News." This is really not that controversial.
- enneff 13y agoI think you got down-voted because you were speaking in absolutes, rather than being even-handed. If you had said what you just said then—instead of blurting out a one-liner—you would have been more well-received.