As this is starting to take the tone of a religious argument ( :-) let me say that while you may not need to know all of the dark corners of C, you will want to know its semantics and here is why. Inevitably you will have to need to use system calls and when you look them up in the manual pages what is described is the C interface. Certainly, many higher level languages offer wrappers around various system calls but often not all of them so it will be to your benefit to at least be comfortable with some knowledge of C semantics.
There will be times when you'll need to consult the C library documentation and, guess what, its documentation is written assuming a familiarity with C. Many other libraries have documentation for C even though wrappers are offered for various languages. The list goes on. Personally, until I got a better handle on C, I had difficulty really understanding the Linux/POSIX system. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150414112806.gx...@n0nb.us
