@AnnaLear "moderators to be able to view questions with votes to migrate to their site before the migration happened and have the opportunity to reject it at that point." No, sir, too much power for moderators :_)
I'd put C/C++, Ada, Python, FORTRAN, PHP (if only to observe the ways in which it sucks and be enlightened), lua, and anything else different or interesting you think of on your list.
It's influenced the development of many other languages. A programmer learning C is like a linguist learning Latin. You'll find its fingerprints in many other languages.
It's strongly typed, something many newer languages play fast and loose with (allowing programmers to develop messy habits)
It's lower-level than a lot of current languages (for example Java is abstracted from the hardware via the JVM so you don't learn a lot about how your code actually interacts with the machine)
Similarly it doesn't abstract you away from things like memory management the way languages like lua and python do.
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@SidCool, C is an interesting exercise from Java. You will learn to appreciate garbage collection and lack of pointer arithmetic. IMHO the best C book is Kernigan and Richie.
I'm not a 100% sure if this qualifies under this stack exchange; however, I asked this question on the stats stackexchange with no answers. I wonder if you can solve it:
Traffic light synchronization nowadays is not a tedious project, Image:
For a personal research project I'm trying to buil...
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