[NTLUG:Discuss] Wanting to speak the language

[David I S Mandala]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:22 -0800, Steve Baker wrote:
[snip]
> If you want to get into the kernel, device drivers, games, graphics,
> or *MOST* other things - then C and C++ are by far the best choice.
> 
> But then, if your criteria is ease-of-learning, then C and C++ can be
> a bit intimidating and maybe you should look into an interpreted language,
> so Java or Python might be fair choices.

I would disagree with you about ease-of-learning. C is one of the
easiest languages to learn (as long as you save pointers and pointer
math to the end of the learning cycle). It has few operators, is very
simple and straight forward flow control, and limited fundamental data
types. Another advantage of learning 'C' is once you learn it you really
understand how the computer system does things.

C++ on the hand is a much more complex complex language to learn. It's a
superset of 'C' and it has overloaded operators, many fundamental data
types and a much more complicated flow control.


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Cheers,

David
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