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In article <1992Dec25.050515.20871@ncsu.edu> bank@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Belgarath the Sorcerer) writes:
=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.

For a person who does not know structured programming ideas, Pascal is a
must. The people who have the most difficulty (in my experience in
teaching C) are those who are experienced in COBOL, BASIC and FORTRAN.

=5) Picking up Assembler prior to learning C isn't a bad idea.
=    Hardly required, tho.

Many explanations of what C can do (and more importantly, what you did
wrong in your program) are best explained to a person who knows what a
computer does and how it does it, a background that is acquired fairly
easily by learning any assembly language. IMO, of course.