Re:Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?
by sramsay on Sunday March 08, 2020 @08:54PM
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Yes. Or, at least, the second part.
I'm not sure what you mean by "lack of abstraction in C."
"Abstraction" is not a straightforward property of a language; it's a thing you create with programming languages. It's true that some languages make it easy to express certain kinds of abstractions, but C has it's own way of abstracting things, and it's certainly not absolutely obvious that its way of doing so is inferior to others.
I'm not sure what you mean by "lack of abstraction in C."
"Abstraction" is not a straightforward property of a language; it's a thing you create with programming languages. It's true that some languages make it easy to express certain kinds of abstractions, but C has it's own way of abstracting things, and it's certainly not absolutely obvious that its way of doing so is inferior to others.