how relevant is C today?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote:
> I don't exactly see why this is a contradiction. "Specific inducement"
> does not necessarily mean that you have to have an external cause to
> learn a language -- be it your job or whatever. Nobody hinders you from
> creating that inducement yourself. It's just very hard to properly learn
> a language without having an idea what to do with it (in fact, I have
> seen people interested to learn programming utterly fail in doing so
> because they had absolutely no clue what to program).

This is my experience also.

Regards,
Martin