Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?

Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by Sir_Cmpwn on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:36PM (#18126588)

The language doesn't break as much today, but what constitutes "idiomatic" Rust is constantly changing. I don't use Rust but I spend a lot of time with people who do and am echoing what I've heard from them, and seen for myself as a casual user of Rust software and occasional drive-by contributor.

It doesn't have to be a monumental task. Rust is simply too big, and getting bigger.

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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by steveklabnik on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:46PM (#18126626)

Thanks. That’s much more reasonable, IMHO.

Specs are always a monumental task. The first C spec took six years to make in the first place!

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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by Sir_Cmpwn on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:56PM (#18126658)

But C never set out to be what it is today. It was a long time before anyone thought a spec was worth writing. For a language with the stated design goals of Rust, a specification and alternative implementations should be priority #1. You can't eliminate undefined behavior if you don't define any!

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