Make C hard

I've been having a look at Learn C the hard way. It should fit me well as I:

come from a language for weaklings. One of those "usable" languages that lets you get away with sloppy thinking and half-assed hackery like Python or Ruby.

So far I've only been playing around with the compiler and make, and wading through the parts where he sets the path and style for the book. Such as learning to learn by braking working code.

I'm about to start on Valgrind, which I've never even heard of. Should be fun.

The book looks short and sweet, but don't be fooled. Many of those exercises take time. But that might fit well with the "slower but better" credo of C.

I love other easier languages because I can just hang out (..) C is harder on you because it requires you to plan out what you'll create first (..) You can't be sloppy and half-assed about what you write or nothing will work.

And so forth.