/a></p>

<figure>
	<img src='../media/refs/vogue-ansic.jpg' width='300'/>
	<figcaption>Typical C89 Programmer</figcaption>
</figure>

<p>One good reason to learn C, even if your programming needs are satisfied by a higher-level language, is that it can help you learn to think at hardware-architecture level. For notes specific to the <a href='plan9.html'>Plan9</a>'s C compiler, see <a href='plan9_c.html'>Plan9 C</a>.</p>

<h3>Compile</h3>

<p>To convert source to an executable binary one uses a compiler. My 