Re: Should I learn C or C++ first?

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From: R Shapiro
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:37

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In article <40mqib$msc@wormhole.cognos.com>, douvilld@Cognos.COM (Derek
Douville) wrote:

>One cannot fully apreciate the advanced organizational features of C++
>until they've programmed in C.  

And you can't understand the "advanced" features of C until you've
manually set bits in hardware with toggle switches, right? Therefore every
new programmer should start by programming in machine language -- yeah,
that's a *great* way to teach modern principles of programming...

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rs/rshapiro@bbn.com

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From: rshapiro@bbn.com (R Shapiro)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or C++ first?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:37:08 -0400
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