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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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