should i learn it first ?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrna8mogf.6ek.philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk>,
phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:57:42 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>
>>I agree with much of what you say, especially the "consider skipping
>>C++ and just learn C part", but _what_ pragmatic point of view is it
>>that has one learning Perl, Java, or C++ when one uses Python already?
>>Not dissing those languages, but when would you really need them?
>
>I can think of several tasks for which C++ is better than Python, 
>e.g. writing operating systems, network stacks, windowing systems, 
>run-time interpreters, crypto algorithms, etc.

But are there any tasks for which C++ (or C++/Python) is really better
than C/Python?
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