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Re:The C juggernaut illustrated (2012) by fmajid on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:36PM (#34659636)
Yep. I learned Pascal in high school, but when I got my first Mac in college and needed to write apps for it, I fumbled with Symantec's Think Pascal for a while and ditched it for Think C in short order, even though I was still learning C at the time (and managed to completely corrupt my hard drive requiring a full reinstall because I used the low-level I/O APIs incorrectly).

You can do a lot in Pascal, and Delphi was an outstanding development environment for Windows app, but C is just so much more powerful.

Re:The C juggernaut illustrated (2012) by Ingaz on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:32AM (#34664402)
For me it was the other way: I learned programming in C and I loved and that's it's "the bestest"

But my first work was in Delphi. I've grown a lot as a programmer exploring VCL, professional tools but I still thought that C and C++ are superior.

My second work was in C. I was happy.

But then .. I started to see that not everything so beatyful.

It was like meeting with a girl you had a crush as teenager but now .. she's just normal