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People should program in C because it is more difficult ? Then people should use punching card for the same reason.

People should program in C because some people programing in ruby are morons ? Great argument ...

I really don't see any valid argument why knowing C is such an enlightening experience (I would argue it is not).

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Linus Torvalds famously said the same exact thing whilst bashing C++ (instead of Ruby as Zed does here).

  C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot 
  of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much 
  easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if 
  the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, 
  that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

thanks for the amazing link (I'm 100% with the 'dinosaurs' on that one), it is worthy of a separate post

I'm sure there are enough morons coding in C also...

All languages have morons. Remember OSCommerce?

OSCommerce isn't a language. Its written in PHP... by morons.

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