Thread: If I already know C++ is it worth learning C?

Learn C# .. Thats where a lot of work is today.

The biggest problem with the C/C++ comparison is that a lot of people are taught C-style C++.

When I first learned C++, we included stdio, for one. In C++, that should be iostream. Add to that that we were never taught objects in C++, the language became very confusing.

As for whether or not you should learn C, it completely depends. The two languages look very similar. As people have said, C++ is supposed too be an extension to C. It doesn't quite do this, and actually breaks a few C features as well as affecting the language's grammar. As a result it has received a lot of criticism, and is one of the reasons why a lot of open source software is written in C. Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds have spoken out about the downfalls of C++.

Anyway, I have become sidetracked. Whether you should learn C, depends on whether you can think of it as a new language, and not 'like C++'. If you can learn it, and learn it well, you will greatly benefit. If you will treat it as C++, but a little bit different, I wouldn't bother.

If you know C++ it should be easy to learn C, however it depends on your needs.

I think C is only useful if you want to code embedded systems, µC and stuff like that.

Yes you must learn C coz now you will find C very very easy

C is if you want to write high-performance code for a new game or say, use that advanced third-party library in your iPhone app, or basically if you want the best performance code.

C++ is easier and much better if you're going to write big software. But if you want the best performance code, C maybe worth considering.

Nope. If you know C++, move up to C#. Plain old C has no interest for you.

And I have to disagree on the performance aspects: you get as much performance in C++ as in C: they both use the same class of compilers and the object layer has minimal overhead.