Pythons & Ladders

[Erik Max Francis]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

> 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.  ;-)

He was talking about C++, not C.  Jeff has quite a good point; teaching 
C++ as C is not terribly useful.

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