I think the guys at osdev mean you need to be good at C before doing systems programming at any form of a professional level. If you don't intend for your code

I think the guys at osdev mean you need to be good at C before doing systems programming at any form of a professional level. If you don't intend for your code to actually do anything (I mean this is just a side project or something, not for somebody to use in production) than you can really do whatever you want.