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In article <4iernd$apq@solutions.solon.com>, mangino@planet.net (Reed Mangino) writes:

|> I don't know if my situation is strange but I would like to know if I am 
|> alone.  I have been coding in C++ for about 3 years now.  I started with 
|> 2 C++/OOP classes (intro and advanced).  I feel pretty comfortable with 

|> Is this strange?  Let me put this into perspective:  I did not know how 
|> to use malloc!  All I ever knew about was new and delete.  Can someone 
|> please tell me that I am not the only person in the world in this 
|> situation!?  I mean, my professors never made it seem important to know 
|> both inside and out, but I think I might be paying for it now.  I can't 

|> me.  If you feel like flaming me because you think I am an idiot (which 

Here's my opinion:

I doubt that you're an idiot, but IMHO, your professors did you a
disservice.

C++ is not a replacement for C, either from a technical viewpoint OR
in terms of employability. But many schools either act as if it is, or
worse, fail to differentiate between the two.

True story: we have a student worker right now who was hired partly on
the basis of his having had a class or two in C. It turns out that what
he was taught in his "C" calss was actually Borland C++, that bastard,
mongrel language-from-hell. He's talented, but it took him a while to
learn to create code that worked under an actual C compiler.

Good luck with learning C ... my advice is get a copy of K&RII and the
c.l.c.FAQ, and read this group.
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