Re: migration from perl

["<Iliyan Malchev>" <ibm@asu.edu>]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Glynn Clements wrote:

> > Should I learn C or C++?
> 
> I recommend learning C first. C++ is based upon C, so most of the
> effort spent on learning C will still be relevant if you decide to use
> C++.

I must disagree with this statement.  Bjarne Stroustrup in his book "The
Design and Evolution of C++" has a section dedicated to questions of that
nature, and his answer to "Should I learn C first, and then C++?" is that you
should not learn C if you want to learn C++ eventually.  Start with C++ from
scratch.  Yes, while C++ is superset of C, you should not think of it this
way.  C++ lets you program around a different paradigm, and you should start
with that.

Regards
Ilian Maltchev


"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
     --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of
       science, 1949

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