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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++           robin)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/25
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	Carlos DeAngulo <cdvi@msg.itg.ti.com> wrote in article
	<01bb74ac$b7aa7860$7b91f780@deangulo>...
	> You should definitely learn C/C++. The business world today uses C++ as
	>its
	> power language to develop the finest applications. Don't let anyone guide
	> you wrong.
	
	>Not to start a flame war on C++, but all you newbie programmers
	>out there, don't believe everything you hear about C++.  Object
	>oriented programming has a lot of good concepts, but C++ is a bad
	>implementation of them.  Not that you shouldn't learn it, but
	>don't think it's the ultimate expression of what OOP is all about.
	
	>C++: The PL/I of the 90s.

---The PL/I of the 90s is considerably enhanced,
with strong typing for list processing,
ordinals, an extended macroprocessor, Year 2000
date processing, and much more.