@christophehenry@mastodon.social
Post #2474891
2026-04-17 06:40 UTC
@encukou@mastodon.social If I understand correctly, really what you mean here is you need to know C to understand C then, no? 🤔
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@encukou@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 07:14
@christophehenry@mastodon.social Not necessarily; if you learn assembly, C++, or Rust, you'll get the concepts as well. But also, in code where locality or SIMD matter, C will be extremely similar to C++ or (unsafe) Rust. And you'll be staring at assembly when optimizing it, regardless of language. No need to learn quirks of the C preprocessor or dark corners of libc, of course -- other languages are better at that, including Python. But "learning C == learning pointers" is a reasonable simplification.