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- From: fish0144@gold.tc.umn.edu (Dennis Fisher)
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
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- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 20:12:26 GMT
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- amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira) wrote:
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- >dschrage@indirect.com (Dan Schrage) wrote:
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- >>>Why should the beginner struggle deciphering a few
- >>>pages of BASIC code, when they could breeze through the same amount
- >>>if it were written in a Pascal like language?
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- >>Why should a beginner learn Pascal with the intent of scrapping later for a
- >>better language when he could just learn C/C++ from the beginning? The
- >>difference in difficulty of learning Pascal vs. C/C++ has been greatly
- >>exaggerated in this thread (I really don't think there was any difference at
- >>all--If anything, Pascal made it more difficult to learn C.)
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- >If the point is to develop healthy programming habits, every beginner
- >should start with Scheme. Just see Abelson and Sussman's book.
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- >
- >_alberto_
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- Ain't this thread ever going to die off?
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- I'm familiar with scheme, trac, basic, pascal, c, and c++ and I would
- NEVER suggest scheme or trac to even my worst enemy!
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- Dennis
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- PS. Ain't this thread ever going to die off?
- (maybe if I repeat that a third time it'll stick!)
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