From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 19:03:07 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 75A3016A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:03:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A783543FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (adsl-67-36-58-31.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [67.36.58.31]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id hAC32txP021489; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:02:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net: Host adsl-67-36-58-31.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [67.36.58.31] claimed to be [192.168.2.49] In-Reply-To: <002901c3a8c4$5f5e7c70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <002c01c3a8c1$a4651bb0$6400a8c0@desktop> <002901c3a8c4$5f5e7c70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lucas Holt Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:02:53 -0500 To: "Matthew Emmerton" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: Alex Kelly cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue 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: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:03:07 -0000 > > You can't learn C++ without learning C first. So I'd suggest you > become > intimiately familiar with C, and then move on to the advanced concepts > and > features that C++ provides once you want/need to use them. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > Thats not entirely accurate. Western Michigan University only teaches C++, and i can tell you that most C topics like pointers and printf have never come up in class. C style strings are it, and they didn't even explain those. This is a common misconception. you can go your whole life without printf only using cout << "hello world" << endl; Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)