Pythons & Ladders

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:18:27 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote:

> Benoit wrote:
>> I've been teaching myself the python language over the past few months
>> using Mark Lutz' Learning Python, 3ed.  Python is also the first
>> programming language I've ever taken up.  I find the language easy to
>> learn and rather productive in relation to the introductory course on C
>> ++ I'd begun in January for fun @ school (we're practicing dynamic
>> arrays using pointers... kill me now).
> 
> Get a better teacher, if you can.  Please do me a personal favor:  Don't 
> hold the crappy course against C++.  For the record, you should never 
> have to manage dynamically allocated arrays manually, nor store pointers 
> to them.  Try the std::vector template, and post in comp.lang.c++ if 
> have any trouble.

Hey a flame bait.  I'll bite.  This a bit of an overreaction unless you
know what the course was about.  If the goal is to learn about the
computer and that basically everything is a number in the end, then C is a
good choice.  More portable than assembler but nearly as close to the
metal.

To the OP: If you try C++, don't hold that crappy language against C#, D,
or Java.  ;-)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch