should i learn it first ?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Sun Mar 10 12:56:56 EST 2002


In article <NuMi8.333338$Aw2.26927026 at bin7.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>, G. Sumner Hayes wrote:
> In article <a6f0fl$u8n$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter wrote:
>>>
>> I'd say if you don't know C, C++, or Python, then start with Python.
>> Then C++, then C. In that order, you won't have to unlearn patterns
>> of design you absorb solving problems with C.
> 
> Ugh, I can see learning Python first but definitely learn C before
> C++.

Definitely.  Also learn Scheme, Smalltalk, Modula-3, Prolog,
Forth, and Bliss-32 before learning C++.

Learning C++ at an impressionable stage will mess you up.

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