What is an example in which knowing C will make me write better code in any other language?

Question

In the Stack Overflow podcasts, Joel Spolsky constantly harps on Jeff Atwood about Jeff not knowing how to write code in C. His statement is that \"knowing C helps you write bet

Answer 1

Do you use arrays much ? and do you come across situations where you need items to be stored in memory without knowing how many of them (i.e. based on a query from the database?) then I suppose C would teach you great things like stacks, structs and link lists which might help you. Regards, Andy