From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (TRAN PHAN ANH) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: <1996Jul22.050421.122863@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170033443 references: organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Tran said > > "Besides, if you can master C/C++, and JAVA, it will take you 5 min. to learn > Pascal. Actually, if one has a solid foundation in programming techniques and > a solid understanding of one or two languages, one can aquire a working > knowledge of any language in no time." > > Evenm allowing for a reasonable amount of rhetorical exaggeration, this is > false. First of all, there is no language C/C++, they are two quite This is nitpicking buddy. Let's replace / with and, and say C and C++. > separate languages, and it definitely is NOT the case that if you have > learned one language that you can learn another in five minutes. Pretty 6, make that 6 minutes... > quickly sure, but not five minutes, for example, the notion of > non-deterministic semantics for "and" in Pascal will be quite unfamiliar > to a C (or for that matter C++ programmer), and there are always enough > fine points like this to make it more than a trivial matter to become > a knowledgable programmer in a new language. Add an extra minute or 2 for unexpected problems. :-) Besides, I never claimed that you will become an expert in the language. I said "a working knowledge". Loosen up dude...:-) Anh