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It's surprising to me that someone could be a programmer without knowing anything about C.

The best programmer in the world may never have even seen a computer for all we know.

Dijkstra famously didn't use one until his friends and colleagues made him get a mac so they could email him.

I was programming for a few years before I first encountered C, and that was almost 2 decades ago. I don't think it's that uncommon.