should i learn it first ?
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Fri Mar 15 00:00:43 EST 2002
"Qiang.JL" wrote:
>
> Do you guys not agree to master C/C++, a large amount of time will be
> required (somewhere on the net i saw it's appro 3-4 years. whew!!)
[...]
> and one more question, what's you view of "you have mastered a language" ?
> knowing syntax and grammer is the begining to master, then know how to use
> them(wisely) and coding coding ... after certain long time , that you call
> you master the language?
Don't treat C and C++ together like that. It would *not* take
three to four years to master C, although I suppose it might
take that long (or longer :-) to "master" C++.
As far as the definition of "master", I find that with any language
that is similar to another language I know in basic style (e.g. having
learned things like Pascal and C++, Delphi seemed quite similar) I
can "master" it in a week or two if I'm actually using it. With C,
you need to know that there is no I/O built in to the language,
pointers are key, structs are the most complicated data type you
can get, and assignment statements are expressions. Probably a half dozen
other little tidbits. Nothing that hard. C++ is another story of course.
-Peter
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