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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,162f2b2d1582456,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Josh Highley" Subject: Hmm...How to write a C Program :) Date: 2000/03/14 Message-ID: <38ce1404.0@silver.truman.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 597398731 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Trace: news.more.net 953052027 150.243.160.9 (Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:40:27 CST) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:40:27 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I read this and it just didn't seem right... http://cplus.about.com/compute/cplus/library/weekly/aa031200a.htm?IAM=MSStar t ------------ How to write a C Program Introduction If you are just learning how to program, C is a great language to start in. There are many reasons for this: C is a more concise language as compared to languages such as Pascal i.e. it has fewer keywords and therefore it is easier to learn. Yet C is more powerful than Pascal. The power of C is inherent in it's use of control flow constructs and data types. Also C allows modular programming through the use of functions. Finally once you know C and have mastered the basics of programming, you can easily learn C++ or java which are syntactically both very close to C. ------------ I didn't realize C programmers felt so threatened by Pascal or that fewer keywords meant a language was easier to learn. I'm tingling from all of the great counter examples. Josh Highley joshhighley@hotmail.com