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Date:      11 Mar 2001 17:10:40 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com>
Cc:        "Tyler K McGeorge" <treznor@sunflower.com>, "Damien Tougas" <damien@carroll.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Looking for Yoda
Message-ID:  <xzplmqcmglb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Joe Warner's message of "Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:13:05 -0700"
References:  <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <000601c0a9f9$31b88120$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> <xzp1ys4v3iv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <01031108370900.00256@blackmirror.xmission.com>

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Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com> writes:
> I understand that if you learn C, then most other object oriented languages
> will be easier to learn.

C isn't object-oriented. The best description one can give of C is
"portable assembly language".

> Can't I start with, say Python? I've read a lot of exciting things
> this language can do and that it's been gaining a lot of recent
> popularity.

C has been gaining popularity for 30 years, and there are literally
billions of lines of C code floating around on the 'net for you to
hack on and learn from; 6,862,599 of them are in the FreeBSD source
tree[1].

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

[1] -CURRENT as of ~15 hours ago, the figure is certainly higher now.

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