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- From: Fan Xia <fanxia@cyberatl.net>
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- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 21:14:57 -0500
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- When I was in school, I started programming by BASIC. But I found it
- is realy hard to write a big program, simply because I could easily
- forget how I wrote it and it was so hard to understand it again.
- You can not learn much about how compiler works and how to use
- some basic programming concept like structure design (flow chart)and
- variable declaration. So I quickly give up BASIC. At that time, not
- many good introduction books about which language was the best one
- for beginner (12 years ago). In my project, I used a lot of assembly
- lang, such as Z80, 6502, ... I found it was helpful to understand
- how the software works and some concepts in high level lang like what
- variable declaration realy means. Now I use strictly high level lang
- (C/C++). But it takes me almost no time to learn it. I mean for any
- lang the realy important things are how to write a big program and
- easily mantenance it. A big program may be written by many people.
- I think object-oriented concept should be important. Thus, why
- we spend so much time on some other lang, go C++ directly.
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