Help me decide D or C

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 03:59:23 UTC, Bert wrote:

> But if you really want to learn to program I suggest you go 
> with Haskell. You can do them all together too but Haskell is 
> like learning Alien while D is learning German.

There's nothing wrong with Haskell if you want to take a deep 
dive into pure functional programming. I personally find Haskell 
to be more of a religion than a programming language. You can 
learn the same perspective from functional-first languages like 
Clojure, Scala, Ocaml, and F#.

The most common reason I hear for learning C is that you learn 
the foundation on which everything is built. And in one sense 
that's kind of true. It's portable assembly. The problem is that 
you don't learn much about programming, because C has so few 
features, and that limits you to (a) working on a narrow set of 
problems or (b) very slowly writing bug-ridden solutions to a 
wider group of problems.

A big part of programming is learning about all the different 
ways to attack problems. You can go a long way with D, unlike C 
or Haskell.