Message-ID: <002001c03ac9$ebe70fc0$0500a8c0@brk> From: "Johan Henriksson" To: Subject: Re: Help! Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:13:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com from: Johan Henriksson, leadprogrammer @ www.realsoftware.cjb.net "It is not the length of life that counts but what you make out of it" - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> >Why did you get a C++ book if you wanted to learn C? >> Does it matter? >Yes. >> It's quite unavoidable to learn C if you learn CC... >Why go to all the trouble of learning C++ if all you want to learn >is C? * You can read ~100% more sources to others apps * You get a better understanding of programming and OO >How are you going to know which parts of C++ are also C? You get a parse error :) Seriously, I think books should be more careful about how they write. CC is an "addon" and should be threat like one. It isn't. >And how are you going to find out about all those little things >which are different in C? Is anything different? None of my older books tells anything about that.