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- From: sas@regina.aruba.UUCP (Steve Sciandra)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:30:33 GMT
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- |> > 1) There seems to exist C, as well as C++, and possibly other variants. What
- |> > are the differences between these? Which should we learn first?
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- |> You really have to learn C before learning C++, but you might as well learn
- |> C++ _programming_ directly.
- |>
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- I learned C++ programming as my first language ( if you don't count COBOL).
- My finding was that i didn't need to know a thing about C syntax wise to
- learn C++. it turned out, however, that learning about pointers, structs,
- etc, I then realized that I have learned some C in the process of learning C++.I cannot claim that I learned all the C idioms and such things that one
- learns from years of C programming, but learned enough of it through C++
- to read C programs and maintain them..
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- Another point, which supports your point, is that most people I ran across
- while learning C++ already knew C and would often compare a C++ construct
- to a C construct, etc. By knowing C, one could benefit from a understanding
- of where C++ came from...
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