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Follow us @oddsontechnology for more tech archives and tech videos. Even the creator of C doesn’t know all of C . When developers asked Bjarne Stroustrup how they could learn every part of C , his answer was surprisingly simple: don’t. After more than four decades of evolution, the language has grown so large that even its own creator regularly looks things up. His advice wasn’t to memorize every function, STL container, library, or template—it was to understand the fundamentals and know where t