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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:02:53 -0500
From:      Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>
To:        "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue
Message-ID:  <B55865F2-14BC-11D8-913B-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com>
In-Reply-To: <002901c3a8c4$5f5e7c70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <002c01c3a8c1$a4651bb0$6400a8c0@desktop> <002901c3a8c4$5f5e7c70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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> You can't learn C++ without learning C first.  So I'd suggest you 
> become
> intimiately familiar with C, and then move on to the advanced concepts 
> and
> features that C++ provides once you want/need to use them.
>
> --
> Matt Emmerton
>

Thats not entirely accurate.  Western Michigan University only teaches 
C++, and i can tell you that most C topics like pointers and printf 
have never come up in class.  C style strings are it, and they didn't 
even explain those.  This is a common misconception.

you can go your whole life without
printf
only using
cout << "hello world" << endl;

Lucas Holt
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