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Originally posted by Lane
C is just fast, but it will take you much longer to code the same thing.
PHP is the best scripting language by far. Its really good for web scripts.
C can have performance advantages if your code involves a lot of system calls. And its a pretty low level language (meaning close to the machine level). Not many people bother to learn C, but if you do, you can learn a lot about language structures, memory management, file systems and other system related stuff as you use it.
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Lane, I think just even reading books by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie taught me a hell of a lot about programming and it translates over to perl or whatever you use. But...I know it will take me a year or two to finally learn C ;-)