Is the C language very difficult to learn?

Answer 1

Most people have stated that C language is difficult to learn.

C is one of the oldest computer programming languages as such it's somewhat "closer" to the computer's architecture than higher-level languages.

For example, C makes very heavy use of pointers, providing an iron-clad distinction between the value stored at a particular location in memory and the location itself. Pointers allow you to be very space-efficient and protect against accidental value changes when passing arguments to procedures, but they can also create significant confusion when dealing with complex logic.

C also doesn't provide as rich a set of intrinsic functions as other languages. You often have to do extra programming (or acquire a secondary package of add-ons) versus simply using a built-in function or a method. For example, where some languages allow multiple strings to be concatenated via an operator like "", "//", or even "+", C requires you to call a function (strcat) that processes only two strings at a time. Thus concatenating four strings requires you to invoke strcat three times!