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In article <1992Dec25.050515.20871@ncsu.edu> bank@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Belgarath the Sorcerer) writes:
>    I'd like to follow-up on some subsequent Posts on this thread.
>
>3) If you are going to go into OOP, DO NOT start off with
>    stuff like Pascal, as one person has suggested. OOP is a
>    completely different mindset than the traditional forms used
>    by Pascal and C. The best language for learning OOP is,
  I concur !

>4) Even if you're not going into OOP, do NOT take up Pascal as
>    a road to C. Pascal is a language that assumes you know
>    very little and places lots of restrictions and
>    inhibitions on you. If you already are a traditional-style
>    programmer, you don't need the knowledge Pascal will
>    teach you (modularization, declaration, etc). Go on into
>    C and avoid having to unlearn all the limits Pascal will
>    place on you.
>
>5) Picking up Assembler prior to learning C isn't a bad idea.
>    Hardly required, tho.

The route I took was such BASIC -> FORTRAN -> Assembler -> Pascal
-> C -> Prolog/Lisp ->  C++. 

I am happy to announce( IMHumble/honestO) that I suffer from few 
prejudices and/or mindsets. Rather than having to unlearn limits I
was ecstatic( as I moved from each language to the next)
that I was finally able to do easily what I had trouble doing 
before. Picking up Assembler IMHO is a truly wise thing to do
if you want to write low-level code and understand porting 
considerations properly. Also knowledge of Assembly language
programming techniques can give you a major insight into
doing things more effciently( a simple illustration is of-course
integer divide/multiply by a power of 2).


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