Rosio Pavoris

Learning C is like learning Latin—while not necessarily of much practical use in itself, and viewed as archaic by most, it does provide a solid basis for understanding the countless languages derived from it, and an enormous help for students of those languages.

That’s not actually a literal quote from anywhere, but it’s still true.
Of course, the C-like-Latin meme has existed for a long time now, and many people actually use it pejoratively (one that comes to mind is “Learning C to learn Objective-C is like learning Latin to speak French—unnecessary and a waste of time”, which is also true, I suppose).
Though people are starting to apply it to C++ as well nowadays, which, in my opinion, is bullshit.

Speaking of C++, The Mansion is progressing nicely.
At this point, the compiled game is 337 KB in size, and it’s already possible to unlock all areas except one, which is three more than I intended for the first release. I’ve also added another area, bringing the total up to 31.
All essential functionality is there, though I’m still working out a bug with saving the game—for some reason, it won’t create a savegame file, though if the player manually creates a blank file, it works fine (and loading works fine too). I can’t imagine that’s not a common problem for nubby programmers, though, so my trusty internets should be able to help me out with that.

At this rate, it’ll be another ten days or so before it’s ready to be playtested. The official release should be in about two weeks. Which is two weeks ahead of schedule.
Wooh.