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: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (TRAN PHAN ANH) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/23 Message-ID: <1996Jul23.231538.122965@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169809872 references: organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy) writes: > In article <1996Jul20.124025.122789@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu > says... >> >>Absolutely right. >> >>But Pascal or C was the original question. Start with C is what I say. >>Better yet, why not C++ then move on to JAVA? >> >>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. >> >>Anh >> > > Yes, but "Hello World" is not a 'real' program. 8} We learned Smalltalk, Prolog, ML, and a dataflow language (can't recall the name right now) in one semester (adv. prg. lang. topics course) , and we did not say hello to the world one single time. :-) About the projects, for sure, noone lost sleep over the syntactic aspects and the different programming paradigms. :-) The course, of course, did not make us experts on all these languages, but, which course make students expert in its area? Anh