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: 1696ae,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid1696ae,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Reto Koradi Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: <31EF54CA.15FB@spectrospin.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168861816 references: <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <4slt4p$9jj@ns.broadvision.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Spectrospin AG mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP12) Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Patrick Horgan wrote: > In my company and in many other startups in Silicon Valley doing > the bleeding edge work in the newest cool stuff, you can't get a > job without being a C++ programmer, period. Such statements keep irritating me. Programming languages are nothing but tools, and if you know the principles of programming and have learned a few other languages, you start programming in C on the first day, and learn about the more subtle points with time. I grew up with the Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon line (what do you expect when studying at Wirth's university?), and didn't have the slightest problem programming in C when I started my first job. Even though C and C++ dominate the workplace, languages like Modula-2 are still much better for learning programming. -- Reto Koradi (kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch, http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor)