Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/28/04:38:03
Alan Wilson <alan DOT wilson AT wilshire DOT com> wrote in article
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> Is that true?? I would need to learn C before I can program in C++? I
was
> under the impressions that I could skip C.
>
It depends on the school of thought you belong to. I belong to the school
that no you do not need to know any C in order to learn
C++. Actually, I think that if someone is serious about C++ then they
should avoid C altogether.
The reason is the OOP paradigm. C++ is more than just additional
extensions to C. It is an entirely new paradigm in programming.
That is of course if you choose to see it as such. For example, I am in
the habit of writing everything as a Class. Some may think
that this is an overkill. I do not. C++ allows you to abstract a
situation into objects beneath the flag of a Class. So why waste a breath
on C and procedural programming. Think Objects, and memberships;
polymorphisms and inheritance. Super classes and classes.
Private and public and protected members. This is C++. No place for C as
long as you think along the lines of OOP.
But as Dennis Miller says: but that is only my personal opinion.
And you know, I am not interested in making any enemies in this newsgroup
:)
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Maan M. Hamze
mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu
http://leb.net/~mmhamze
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