@christophehenry@mastodon.social
Post #2474887
2026-04-16 17:24 UTC
@nedbat@hachyderm.io Interesting reading. I was never taught all that at school.
Not entirely related to μP but still on the myths of "C teaches you…" one of the stupidest things I've heard in my short career is that C teaches you to manage your memory and Java makes sloppy devs because it abstracts it away…
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@nedbat@hachyderm.io 2026-04-16 18:29
@christophehenry@mastodon.social I've had people in Python spaces say, "You need to know C so you understand stack vs heap". "Why do Python people need to know about stack allocation, it has no stack allocation" "....umm...."