From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 11 11:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 003E137B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.7.72] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14cBJK-0000UH-00; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:15:23 -0700 From: Joe Warner To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:13:16 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "Tyler K McGeorge" , "Damien Tougas" , References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <01031110565703.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031112151205.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, thanks! Now to find the most precious of all commodities,....time. 8^) Joe On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Joe Warner writes: > > > I switched to C after several years of BASIC and Pascal, > > > on a recommendation from my eldest brother. > > Do you recommend starting with another language as a stepping stone before > > diving into C or is it all right to just begin with C? > > Start with C, and no matter what anyone says, stay away from C++ until > you really understand C. > > Other people will say "start with Java" or "start with Perl" or "start > with Python" or "start with Ruby"... but Perl will only teach you bad > habits, Java will probably only frustrate you with its extremely slow > edit-compile-run cycle, and while Python and Ruby are fine languages, > they won't prepare you for C (and you *will* end up hacking C sooner > or later...) Any other language will be either too old to be of > interest, or lack the large base of existing documentation and code > that C, C++, Perl, Java, and lately Python and Ruby enjoy. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message