university, programming languages (-) 

my university teaches C as a first and main language

if universities stopped doing that, C would die really really really fast - it's not a useful or valuable language anymore, aside from the fact that people keep being taught it!

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university, programming languages (-) 

@lizardsquid C is valuable for embedded systems developers, as there's a compiler from C to just about any processor you can imagine. Even the weird ones.

That's why I think it's held on for so long. It's the only option in a lot of cases. Of course, that's not to say that it should be.

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