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You should really know how the soil and weather works before starting to farm. Otherwise you will end as a seasonal worker.


To get a turing complete programming language all you need are functions and function applications. Pointers and low level memory management are just an implementation detail :)


Do you think agricultural schools sit people inside for a month to learn geology and meteorology before they let them step on a farm?

C is important to know, but there's lots of stuff you need to learn before that.




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