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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:42:51 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 4/23/11 9:23 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:08:33 -0700 (PDT), Elias Salom�o Helou Neto wrote:
> 
>>> It is quite different with programming languages, as C is actually
>>> harder than Pascal, which is a great tool for teaching programming.
>>
>> In which sense is C harder?
> 
> C is harder to learn from the ground up, as your first formalism,
> when measured by the number of non-intuitive and non-essential
> fundamental concepts that students must all understand in order
> to understand and use fundamental ideas of C.
[...]
> Is this a sense in which C is harder when you
> want to learn the fundamentals of programming?

True, but this does not imply difficulty to learn. It depends on the goals
set. People *feel* they know C very quickly. The fact that they actually do
not know it and even less know software engineering does not change that
felt easiness. This is why I asked for the meaning of being hard. Nobody
cares that C is hard from the stand point of software engineering because
nobody cares about the latter.

Is it hard to learn how to use a hammer?

1. No
2. What for?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de