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Comment by glum64 | original | C for Rust programmers
[−]glum64 · 2026-10-11 Sun 07:26 UTC · link
The first language is formative. It gets the programmer to think at a particular level of abstraction. If that level is wrong for the problem at hand, the programmer needs another language.

Write, say, a boot loader, for enlightement.