What to do after Python?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> 
> "Kenneth Loafman" <ken at lt.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.982538961.27262.python-list at python.org...
> > Please also teach the C Standard Library along with C++.  I've seen some
> > very poor examples of "reinventing the wheel" happen because the student
> > did not even know the basics of the C Standard Library and its
> > interaction with the basic elements of C/C++.  Consider one case I found
> > where the goal was to remove the last character of a line.  Instead of
> > using something like:
> >
> >    if (strlen(s)) s[strlen(s)-1] = 0
> 
> Argh!
> 
> The following is the correct ways of doing this in C++:
> 
> s = std::string(s.begin(), s.end() - 1);
> 
> Not using 'std::string' in C++ is analogous to not using the built-in string
> type in Python.

They were using CString under M$VC.  I don't think std::string existst
on the M$ compilers.  Would make it too easy to port to the heathen UNIX
boxen <grin>.

...Ken