Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore?

Re:Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore? by cprussin on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:07PM (#1831124)

Come to Virginia Tech. Our entire linux/unix user's group is C crazy, we have a resume CD, and most of us are pretty intelligent people.

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Re:Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore? by maukdaddy on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:41PM (#1831286)

When I was a CS undergrad at VT (1998-2000) all CS classes were taught in C++.

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Re:Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore? by jimmyswimmy on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:01AM (#1832904)

Go Hokies! I was there same time.

Anyway to echo a bunch of others' comments, EE and CompE's like C. It's great for embedded work. If you find one of us who prefer programming to building stuff, you will be very happy with our understanding of C. On top of which we tend to like to write efficient code (i.e. fast and/or low memory footprint) because we are used to having K's of memory rather than M's or G's.

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Re:Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore? by tkahn6 on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:44AM (#1833019)

Yeah I'm at VT as well and a member of VTLUUG. My last technical interview was primarily done in C.

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