"they will hit a layer of C code and won’t know what to do next." Really? "Smart and curious" people will just see this new language and go "well fuck, I dunno

"they will hit a layer of C code and won’t know what to do next." Really? "Smart and curious" people will just see this new language and go "well fuck, I dunno what to do"? They won't, for instance, just LEARN THE NEW LANGUAGE? Arguing that beginners should start in C because they need to "understand how computers work" is like arguing that first-graders should be taught the construction of the reals so they "know how arithmetic works".