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A comment on Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R?.

Re:Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R? by xavierJohnson on Thursday July 28, 2016 @03:43PM (#12182624)
Start learning 8086 or more commonly known a x86 Assembly... That will get you much closer to the hardware and will give you entirely new sets of problems to solve and an immense knowledge of how computers work.

Guaranteed to make you a better software engineer.

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Re:Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R? by tacostakohashi on Thursday July 28, 2016 @03:57PM (#12182723)
That sounds like more of a way to learn x86 assembly than a way to learn C. For all we know, this guy is writing his C for an ARM or a m68k - who knows?
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Re:Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R? by xavierJohnson on Thursday July 28, 2016 @04:16PM (#12182820)
the OP says "My objective is to better understand how computers work, how ruby works, and generally to be a better software engineer." I just gave him options.
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Re:Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R? by samtho on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:22PM (#12183281)
> Guaranteed to make you a better software engineer.

I wouldn't say it's a "Guaranteed" way to make you a better software engineer, but it does offer a lot of perspective that is invaluable to the fundamentals of microprocessors and how we interface with them.

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