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- From: amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:42:33 GMT
- Organization: Number Nine Visual Technology
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- dexam@another.gun.de (Thomas Fischbacher) wrote:
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- >On 12.01.1996 [04:09:15] [sbuzz@melbpc.org.au (Scott Buszard)] wrote the following lines about
- >"Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?"SB> G'day!
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- >SB> If I had not had all the other experience, I would not have found it
- >SB> as easy to pick up. Personally, I would reccommend C++ DOS based
- >SB> first, then move on to OO. It is handy to know many types of langs.
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- >When learning a new language, one shouldn't stick to a crappy system like
- >DOS which imposes lots of unneccessary restrictions compared to a real
- >OS. I mean Unix (netbsd, linux for single-user systems), os/2 or
- >something alike.
- >I don't want to say that there are no other good os'es, but DOS etc.
- >certainly is the worst there is.
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- Still, there's no worse restriction on a programmer than not to be
- able to talk directly to the hardware.
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- The best operating system isn't the one that does more, but the one
- that gets out of the way when it's not needed. With DOS, I can
- reach my hardware any time I want. With Windows, I can do that by
- writing a VDD. With Windows 95, I can load that VDD on the fly.
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- With Unix, I probably need to recompile the kernel - that is, if I'm a
- hacker and I have the Unix source code.
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- _alberto_
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