From: G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:57:57 +0200
Subject: Re: a simple question
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>I'm new to dos programming and also to anything other than any form of
>basic(all I used to have access to was a Tandy 1000RL with no hard drive
and
>768k ram running dos 3.??).  uhhh.....how do i word this.......how many
>different programming languages are done by the djgpp people? i know of
>c,c++,objective c, but are there any more?

IIRC there are also fortran, pascal, ada, perl, awk and some more

>which would be best for a person like me to learn?  I know almost every
>version of basic(oh wow that's a real accomplishment) - gw-basic, basica,
>visual basic 4.0,5.0, qbasic, and one other that i can't remember.  and
what
>is a good book to use to learn said recommended language?
>thank you for any help
Well, this was not a simple question at all! :-)

IMHO there is no language that is "best to begin with". Every language has
good
and bad aspects.  I started with basic too, but I really learned
programming with
pascal, but this was some time ago, now I nearly forgot it :-)

Nowadays I think you should put your attention on object oriented
languages,
such as C++. The "C++ Programming language" by Stroustrup is the "bible" of
the language, but I don't know if it can be suggested as a beginner
textbook.

ciao
  Giacomo