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I wrote an assignment in C for Operating Systems in my second year of CS. I did it mostly for the challenge and ended up with a distinction grade.

It was very challenging! I was learning how to do threading in C for what was one of the most complex assignments in my degree. However, I don't regret a moment of it. Even with a mark that was lower than my average programming assignment marks, I learned more in that assignment than I did in anything else while at uni.

Being forced to RTFM because it wasn't abstracted away for you was exhilarating once I understood what was going on. And man, it was fast! Much faster than others who had programmed in Java.

I wish I had more reasons to write C, because I love it.



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