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C. Or some form of assembly. Both of them get you closer to the hardware than any high-level language would, and it's important to know what scheme and python and any other language are really doing for you automatically.

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Definitely. I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon (especially since I'm only 28) but it's scary the number of people nowadays who call themselves programmers but have never even had to worry about allocating memory.

Yes, all those 60 year old Lispers.

C is a nice third-language indeed. (And you will be glad you did not do it as a first.)

You do not need to care for C++ much now.

Indeed; by the time you do, it might have been usurped by D.

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