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I used to know it very well. Now, not as much. Even when I wrote C++, I basically wrote "C, with classes."
Why write C-with-classes if you can just write C-with-structures-and-function-pointers instead?
Also, you may be giving up a lot of niceties in your IDE that way.
Plus, if there's some feature of C++ I do like, I can bring it in.
Ug, now it sounds like PHP.
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I'm 30, and from Googling you seem to be 3 years older than me, but I don't think the use case for learning C has changed all that much over the course of my time as a programmer. Already around '95 or so Perl was widely used, GUIs could be done in things like Tcl/Tk, basic apps were starting to move onto the web, desktop stuff was mostly in C++. You learned C when you wanted to work on things like kernels or databas…
I don't know if you remember, but in 1995, Serious Software was still Not Written in "Scripting Languages". Things like SATAN and HotJava were avant-garde exceptions, and Emacs Lisp was a holdover from another era (and we often used vi instead because it was noticeably faster). Today, I regularly use an email client written mostly in JS, message boards written entirely in Python, a chat client written in Python, a hi…
I'm from the "Modern C++" school. I learned C++ without first learning C. I don't consider myself a C programmer. Of course, I can read and write C code, but I would consider it a burden to code without smart pointers, templates and exceptions. How should I answer this poll?
I'm from the "Modern C++" school. I learned C++ without first learning C. I don't consider myself a C programmer. Of course, I can read and write C code, but I would consider it a burden to code without smart pointers, templates and exceptions. How should I answer this poll?
That said, answer #3 or #4 makes sense.
I'm from the "Modern C++" school. I learned C++ without first learning C. I don't consider myself a C programmer. Of course, I can read and write C code, but I would consider it a burden to code without smart pointers, templates and exceptions. How should I answer this poll?
I've been programming in C for longer than my current manager has been alive. :-)