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enriquto on April 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Technologies I thought my son would never use

Most people don't need to learn C either; or any programming language, for that matter.

carlmr on April 12, 2021 [–]

Sure but I think programmers is an implicit assumption here when talking about which programming languages to learn. We don't need to start splitting hairs here.

And COBOL is extremely niche, while C is still quite common and useful to know.

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