Sender: root AT sympatico DOT ca Message-ID: <32E57E81.46BB7A32@sympatico.ca> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:42:10 -0500 From: "Mike A. Harris" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Wilson CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Learning C/C++ References: <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970121170811 DOT 006a4a70 AT delilah> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alan Wilson wrote: > >> love to program.. and I lvoe my computer.. and I would love to be able > >> to program in C/C++ ASAP! :) > >You'll have to learn C sufficiently before you even think of C++, > >however C is easy to learn if you have a couple books and some time to > >invest. If you've got any programming experience in BASIC or any > >other languages then you'll be fairly comfortable with C within 2 - 4 > >weeks. If not, then it may take a while. > > 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. C++ is just *that*: C "plus plus". If it were a completely different language, then they would have called it D or something. However, C++ is basically C with a lot of extensions to the language. Quite a number of differences can be found between the two languages, however C++ falls back on C in that any "C" program is also a valid "C++" program. Thats probably why they called C++ "C++". Perhaps a better name for it would have been "C, but not *just* C, oh no, it's much more, its plus plus much more". Perhaps that is what they were thinking of calling it only they thought it was a little wordy so they just called it C++. At any rate, yes, you have to learn C to learn C++. -- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris My dynamic address: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT sympatico DOT ca mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Want Wordperfect for Linux? Visit Caldera's website: www.caldera.com