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C is outdated. You can do absolutely everything you can in C in C++ via libraries anyway if you need to. Learning C purely as an introduction to C++ is akin to learning Latin before Italian (or any romance language). Yes, you will understand why Italian is what it is today, but you will also have to put up with clumsy conjugation, not being able to express modern ideas effectively, the list goes on. It's perfectly valid as a programming language, but not if the ultimate goal is to learn C++. It's just not necessary. C++ steamlines a lot of C's concepts anyway so it is probably easier for a beginner with C++-oriented goals to learn and use.