philipbuuck

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   by philipbuuck 11y ago

   I think C is a good choice to stop. I know it's an abstraction itself, but beyond that you get into hardware specifics and often-closed OS code.
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   by philipbuuck 11y ago

   It's funny how the comments went down that road. I don't think C is a good choice for a first language. I would argue that C++ is an even worse choice than C, but that's for another article...
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   by philipbuuck 11y ago

   Yep, exactly. Abstractions help make us more productive, but if we don't understand what it is they're actually abstracting, I believe they're limiting us, not enabling us.
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   by philipbuuck 11y ago

   I'm the author of the article. I don't think C should be the first language for most new programmers. The article doesn't recommend that. Rather, my argument is that C provides the lowest level abstraction that (most) modern