Learning C++ (was Re: [PyKDE] Line numbers in TextEdit box?)

[Tom Badran]

On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 15:10, Michael Lauer wrote:
> Ugh! Please don't advice people wanting to learn C++ to start with C.
> C++ as a multi-paradigm language is fundamentally different from C - it
> just includes it because of compatibility issues and in the past, the
> C->C++ way caused a lot of people to get used to ugly habits and writing
> C-style-programs in C++ just because it seems to work.

If you think thats bad i learned c for the sake of doing embedded work (i.e. c 
+ copius use of hard coded memory refrences, asm, and strange macro 
constructs) then from that leaned java and then after that learned c++. You 
can imageine some of the code i write ;)

Tom

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