From: afn03257 AT freenet3 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P Hudson)
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Subject: Re: Learning C/C++
Date: 22 Jan 1997 14:25:14 GMT
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Alan Wilson <alan DOT wilson AT wilshire DOT com> wrote:
>At 01:05 AM 1/21/97 -0500, you 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++? 

 No it is not.

>I was under the impressions that I could skip C.

 You can, although you might not want to. The two languages are vastly
 different and enough so that you never need use C like programming in
 C++ if you don't want to. The two langauges do have a lot of overlap
 though so effectively learning C or C++ is learning something about the
 other one, even if it is only operators and types.