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Originally posted by absorbation
but they say learning C++ is easier without knowing C

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Bollocks. Once you've learnt C, you're already halfway to learning C++.

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Originally posted by absorbation
Why teach C when you can teach a better language with more functions that is now used more today

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Originally posted by Wikipedia
The majority of the code (71%) was written in the C programming language, but many other languages were used, including C++, Lisp, assembly language, Perl, Fortran, Python and various shell scriptinglanguages. Slightly over half of all lines of code were licensed underthe GPL. The Linux kernel was 2.4 million lines of code, or 8% of thetotal.

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Linux article.

Also, Windows is written, in part, in C. There are plenty of C files in the leaked Win2000 code at least.