why learn C?

hai all,

i want to become a good programmer. one of my friends ( named
"arnuld", he posts here infrequently), taught me Lisp. so i am not a
programming beginner.

i have heard these 2 points. i want to know how :

1. C gives you a strong base of Procedural style of programming which
forms the basis of learning other paradigms e.g OOP

2. with C one will learn about pointers and algorithms.

3. /arnuld/ told me this in an email:

" i think algorithms and data-structures are more important than
learning a new programming language . Hence i prefer learning about
algorithms and data structures 1st, before i attempt a new programming
language or OOD. i think that is a better way. i said so after
searching the archives of "comp.programming", "comp.lang.c++",
"comp.lang.c" & "comp.lang.lisp" , at these places i found that
learning about programming, algorithms, data structures, abstraction,
software design and problem solving, and version control is much more
important and time consuming than simply learning a language, almost
all folks agree on that learning a programing language is a simple
task as compared to what they have described here"


/arnuld/ is not an experienced programmer, so i feel difficulty in
believing his words. i want to know the views of people here,a s much
of the post belong to C.


- pandit

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