From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 11 9:26: 8 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 C192C37B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.7.33] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14c9bV-0004gi-00; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:26:02 -0700 From: Joe Warner To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:18:47 -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> <01031108370900.00256@blackmirror.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031110255100.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, thanks. So, it's obvious you recommend I start with C. What's the next step? Start reading my books? Check out the sites on the web, like the one's you mentioned previously? Register for some related college courses? All of the above? How did you get started? Thanks Joe On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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