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- From: sfms@passport.ca (sfms)
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-yea
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- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:29:04 GMT
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- In article <96031502451422486@gco.com>, peter.garner@gco.com (Peter Garner) says:
-
- > I am not sure that I agree with that. I more or less started with C++,
- >and I am doing quite well (I think, hehehe)! In fact, many
- >experienced OOP Gurus (e.g. Grady Booch) insist that learning a
- >procedural language is a hinderence in todays Object Oriented World!
-
- OTOH, there are times when my background in C has really helped
- me solve tricky technical problems. Had I learned C++ first
- I doubt I would have had the patience to learn all that low-level
- stuff. I think a good programmer can jump back and forth between
- levels with relative ease. Although my ASM is pretty rudimentary,
- I benefit from being able to look at a C statement and get a sense
- of what the assembler calls are. The same applies to C++ (Especially
- if the classes are somebody elses).
-
- >BG> Learn & enjoy. Do, however, go outside from time to time and
- >BG> get some sun & fresh air. I work with some people that lived
- >BG> computers since they were born, and they are the biggest geeks.
- >
- >
- >Hear, Hear!!! hehehe :-)
-
- Absolutely! No amount of quantity programming can replace quality
- programming. Save the sloppy C hacking for somebody else. While
- he/she is looking for the obscure bugs, you can go out hand have
- a life because you avoided the bug in the first place.
-
- Ross
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