From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Axel Siebenwirth Subject: Re: migration from perl Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:29:39 +0200 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020815152939.GA1977@prester.freenet.de> References: <20020815153530.A31011@genestate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020815153530.A31011@genestate.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mat Harris Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org Hi Mat! On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Mat Harris wrote: Look at http://gcc.gnu.org and learn C++, I'd say. Because if you know C++ you also know plain C. And object-oriented programming is always a good thing nowadays. Regards Axel > hi, i am a 'fairly' competant perl programmer but I believe that as most > of my work is with redhat, i should know that language it is built with. > > can anyone point me in the right directions? what is the C equivalent to > perl.org? Should I learn C or C++?