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> Do it; you will never regret it.

Citation needed. I hate hate hated C and am very glad to have seen the back of it.

I too hated C once to the point I actually kicked a PC over on its side out of anger. I never understood pointers, structures and string manipulation. I genuinely hated it and wanted it to go away. I deleted all the code I'd written then went for a walk.

Then suddenly... click.

Suddenly, in my mind appeared an abstract model for it. It was complete and possible for one person to understand.

Since then I understand what I'm doing rather than know how to drive the compiler.

That has never happened for any other language I've written and that includes Z80+6502+X86 ASM, C++, C#, VB3-6, PDS7, ksh, Python, Perl and PHP to name a few. Assembly is close but not abstract enough.

Enlightenment is probably the best word to describe it.

I never had the click about pointers, I guess the way they were introduced to me just made them feel intuitive.

I'll never forget the time when programming changed from mechanically entering statements, to controlling the flow of data through a program though (also in C). Definitely a brain-expanding experience :)

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