Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:13:16 -0700 From: Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Tyler K McGeorge" <treznor@sunflower.com>, "Damien Tougas" <damien@carroll.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Message-ID: <01031112151205.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp3dck2mev.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <01031110565703.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> <xzp3dck2mev.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Ok, thanks! Now to find the most precious of all commodities,....time. 8^) Joe On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com> writes: > > > I switched to C after several years of BASIC and Pascal, > > > on a recommendation from my eldest brother. > > Do you recommend starting with another language as a stepping stone before > > diving into C or is it all right to just begin with C? > > Start with C, and no matter what anyone says, stay away from C++ until > you really understand C. > > Other people will say "start with Java" or "start with Perl" or "start > with Python" or "start with Ruby"... but Perl will only teach you bad > habits, Java will probably only frustrate you with its extremely slow > edit-compile-run cycle, and while Python and Ruby are fine languages, > they won't prepare you for C (and you *will* end up hacking C sooner > or later...) Any other language will be either too old to be of > interest, or lack the large base of existing documentation and code > that C, C++, Perl, Java, and lately Python and Ruby enjoy. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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