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  1. Path: magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news
  2. From: "Mr. Wizard" <madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
  5. Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 10:33:20 -0600
  6. Organization: alt.destroy.the.earth
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  15. Colin or Harold Bowern wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > I'm 17 and I learned basic and pascal 9 years ago.. Today i do asm/c/c++ on > various platforms and i must say, basic and
  18. > pascal were good starting points to learn the ropes of programming without > all the worry of direct memory addressing,
  19. > pointers (to the c/c++ complexity), syntax, etc... 
  20.  
  21. But you shouldn't. Just because you're learning something that is more
  22. complicated, doesn't make it any better. (In fact, chances are you're
  23. learning something worse.)
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