Re:Ask HN: Should I learn C?
by evilthinker on Saturday July 17, 2010 @06:12PM
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Those are not reason on not to use C++, but reason on why some people shouldn't be using C++ in the first place. Yes you can do it in python unless you want speed, if I am to interface my python code with C or C++ why can't I write them in C++ in the first place?
Also if I were to interface any scripting language code with C I would probably go with Lua.
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I'd say "It doesn't work well in most shops" is a damn good reason to not use something.
In general, very little of the program needs to be written in C to get great performance gains.
Additionally, python is vastly different from LUA. Lua is still a scripting language, ruby and python have moved past that.
For someone at age 18 or so, I'd say C is a much much better level of complexity to be tackling that C++