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

Knowing C is not a requirement to being able to effectively use higher-level languages, but it certainly can help ones general understanding of how computers and software work - I think it's similar to an assertion that knowing some assembly language or computer architecture/hardware logic (and/or/nand gates, etc) can help a C programmer be a better programmer.

Sometimes in order to solve a problem it helps to know how things are working 'underneath' what you're doing.

I don't think this means a programmer must know C in order to be a good programmer, but I think that knowing C can be helpful to almost any programmer.