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From:	abostick AT netcom DOT com (Alan Bostick)
Subject:	"I before E, except after . . . " (was Re: C for dumbasses)
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bhodge AT gpu5 DOT srv DOT ualberta DOT ca (B Hodge) writes:

>One thing to keep in mind.  DO NOT LEARN C++ BEFORE YOU LEARN C!!!
>Teaching a friend programming, who started off in C++ and I'm still
>picking up the pieces :)

Say *what*?  That's like saying "Do not learn perl before you learn awk!"
Or maybe "Do not learn Pascal before you learn ALGOL-68!"  Or maybe even
"Do not learn perl before you learn C!"

What sort of bad programming habits does learning C++ encourage? Relying
on the compiler to catch the programmer's type mismatches?  Including 
iostream.h instead of stdio.h?  Using //-marks to comment code?
Or do you think, rather, that once a programmer has tasted C++'s power
she never will want to restrict herself to a language where she can't
overload function names?

C and C++ are different languages.  Very closely related languages to be
sure, but different languages.  Switching from one to another requires
some adaptation, no matter which direction you go.  Switching from Pascal
to C requires some adaptation, as does going from sh to perl, or COBOL to
PL/1.  What's the big deal?

(What sort of pieces would you have had to pick up, do you suppose, if
your friend had started out learning Pascal?)



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