Yes! Learn C!! But learn it with a view towards using it to inform your use of other languages. The low-level aspects (pointers, memory management, working with

Yes! Learn C!! But learn it with a view towards using it to inform your use of other languages. The low-level aspects (pointers, memory management, working with .DLL or object libraries) are things that most languages, however fluent or high-level, use under the hood. Spolsky and Atwood argued this out in Stackoverflow Podcast #2. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-2/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-2/ Just get a comfort level with it (C), and move on. It will pay dividends.