From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 11 8:10:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B406837B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA35833; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:10:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Joe Warner Cc: "Tyler K McGeorge" , "Damien Tougas" , Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <000601c0a9f9$31b88120$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> <01031108370900.00256@blackmirror.xmission.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Mar 2001 17:10:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: Joe Warner's message of "Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:13:05 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe Warner 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