Go for it. You have my full support and encouragement. Pick up a copy of The C Programming Language, 2nd ed. [1988], by Kernighan and Ritchie, affectionately known as K&R2; and add
Code:
alias cc='gcc -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic'
to your .bashrc to get the most out of it. Feel free to ask questions if you run into trouble.
It is true that C++ has lost a good bit of its popularity to Java, but both are still pretty widely used and therefore useful to know. I won't venture any advice on that because I know very little C++.
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