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- From: jhalmen@news.abo.fi (Johan Halmen UPR)
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- Subject: Re: Pascal or C++?
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- Date: 8 Jan 1996 00:36:15 GMT
- Organization: Abo Akademi University
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- bonnardv@pratique.fr wrote:
- : What's a good language to learn programming ?
- : In my opinion, C is the best choice because it is portable, it has a
- : good ANSI library, it has type-checking, and C programs can easily be
- : converted to C++ (an Object Oriented Pascal exists, but C++ is really
- : better).
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- If one starts learning programming from scratch╕ I believe Pascal
- is better than C. It is originally developed for teaching
- programming╕ C was developed for professional programmers to
- develope the Unix system. I don't say that C is a bad choice╕
- only that it's next to best. If you don't have the slightest
- idea of what programming is╕ choose Pascal╕ otherwise C.
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- Johan Halmen
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