Peter Crowther wrote:
2009/10/28 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
Everybody ought to learn a little C at some point. It will make you
really appreciate a relatively clean language like Java.
ICL PLAN3 asembler, anyone? :-)
More seriously, I agree with you and would add a second reason: doing
a little work in a language that is reasonably "close to the metal"
gives an insight into how the machine actually works, which stands you
in good stead when thinking about algorithms and resource usage in
those higher-level languages.
As long as we're on the [OT] subject, how about learning about the
judicious and parcimonious usage of sorted data structures, on a
computer with 16 Kb of RAM and punched paper cards as its only external
memory store (IBM System 4, RPG) ?
2 GB heaps, ha !
Anyone else upping the ante ?
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