From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 15:02:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B93A16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:02:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D860343F75 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:02:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C2AAE5D; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:02:35 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200311102314.hAANEpc25533@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <000e01c3a7e1$a16bc2a0$6400a8c0@desktop> <200311111403.13202.howells@kde.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Nov 2003 18:02:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200311111403.13202.howells@kde.org> Message-ID: <448ymmcxv8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:02:37 -0000 Chris Howells writes: > On Monday 10 November 2003 23:23, Alex Kelly wrote: > > So, it sounds like I should probably tackle C before C++. > > Not really, there's need to learn C if you just want to learn C++. Any decent > C++ book will teach you all you need to know without learning C specifically > first. They are different languages, and shouldn't be viewed as depending on each other. [There is a myth that C++ is a superset of C, but this is not really the case.]