My experience: C has a spartan standard library compared to other languages like Python. Even something like getting a scheme going for decent memory management can take a lot of work. I found it to be a good way to get my head round using pointers, now I don't find them so scary.
Just curious, is there a particular language you were thinking of learning?
Yes I'm learning Clojure. I've done the Clojure Koans and have been working through problems on 4Clojure.org. I'm getting to the point where I want to start applying what I've learned.
Cheers for the reply. I went to Github to look for <a programming language> koans, and they exist for a lot of languages - oddly I couldn't find one for C.
Anyway, recently I decided I should try to be more multilingual, Javascript with Eloquent Javascript.
> Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee??
Would you be referring to the business morals or technical requirements of Facebook? You need a lot of good hacks to deal with large bulks of data. For example: https://github.com/facebook/warp
I heard Goooogle developed Go partially because they were fed up with the time taken up compiling massive C programs.
> I'm going to post a recent Onion article. It shares some of my thoughts on the subject matter far more eloquently than my own words ever could.
Eloquent or not, I thought that the supplied article was irresponsible and lacked substance.
I sincerely hope that the given name "Travis Benton", is a pseudonym (and that photograph is not of him). If a potential employer has perused this article, it could effect his chances of gaining more suitable or substantial employment.
The article has possibly put "Mr. Benton" at a serious disadvantage in life. If a similar article was published about me I would call up the editor and shoot hell-fire down the phone.
Minetest [0] has some scripting ability, utilising Lua.
[0] http://minetest.net/