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From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: a simple question
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:50:46 -0700
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At 09:57  4/22/1998 +0200, G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it wrote:
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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?
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>IIRC there are also fortran, pascal, ada, perl, awk and some more

I have also got FORTH and INTERCAL to work :)

>>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! :-)

Agreed.

>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 :-)

This is true. Pascal, for instance, was designed for teaching, but is not
used in the Real World for much else. BASIC, however, is in almost all
opinions a horrible language, and IMHO you should try to forget it as
quickly as possible :)

I, too, started with BASIC, but moved to Pascal when I wanted to program for
real. The structure of Pascal is much like most procedural languages in
existence, and I think there is also an object-oriented version. Speaking
for myself, I found the move from Pascal to C quite smooth.

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>Nowadays I think you should put your attention on object oriented
>languages,
>such as C++.

I won't touch this religious issue. :))

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com