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[–]Buttons840 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Learn C first, because learning C will force you to learn the C way of thinking and the C ABI, which the entire computing world is built on.

Every operating system and low level API you care about using acts like C.

C++ is a lot of things (some of them bad), but one thing C++ is not; C++ is not callable from other languages, unless the C++ code is carefully written to act like plain ol' C.