After using modern languages, can C NOT be painful?
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I started my computer engineering course recently and we've been using C for a couple of things. Before starting university, I was doing a lot of web development. I've written a lot of PHP code (yuck!) and for the last year or so Ruby exclusively.
aside: I love Ruby, love it!
So after a year of heavy Ruby development, is it wrong to think that C should be avoided at all costs unless absolutely necessary?
Right now it seems to me I should try to a) get it to run in Ruby b) if it's too slow, try Java c) if it's too slow, use C
Is there anyone who jumps straight to C if a VM (Ruby, Java, Python, etc) can be used on the machine and speed is not an issue?
In other words, can C NOT be painful?
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