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- From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 13:49:13 -0800
- Organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department
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- dschrage@indirect.com (Dan Schrage) writes:
- > I still believe what I stated in my original post--it is pointless to learn
- > languages such as Pascal or BASIC when you can learn a much more powerful and
- > practical language such as C++ from the beginning without much of a difference
- > in the learning curve.
-
- Or advance to Modula-2 or 3, or Ada, both much more similar to Pascal
- than C or C++, and much more powerful and practical than C or C++.
- (gosh, at least recommend C to the beginner, it's much more practical
- and useful than C++)
- --
- Darin Johnson
- djohnson@ucsd.edu
- - I'm not a well adjusted person, but I play one on the net.
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