Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation
The Sourcegraph Podcast
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How Did You Get Into Programming?
C s s is a programming language that allows you to create games and utilities. It was developed in the 1990s by Andrew Cawthorne, who went on to become one of the world's leading computer programmers. He says he started out playing with visual basica - an early version of Visual Basic which allowed him to make his own applications. But as he got further into his career it became more important for him to be able to explore what computers could do at any time. This meant using c instead of other languages like python or pearl because they don't have enough control over the operating system.
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