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: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/09/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185521773 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <51knkn$j61@dub-news-svc-8.compuserve.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article bs@research.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes: > Actually, the story that ++ comes from the PDP11 instruction > set is a myth. Dennis Ritchie has denied it quite often, but > that doesn't seem to impress people. ++ is in C and C++ because > Dennis (being a mathematician) considered it a fundamental ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > (and useful) operation. It was in the PDP11 instruction set I don't see how that has anything to do with it. I'm a mathematician and I don't see it as a particularly interesting or useful operation to be singled out for special status (I'm not talking about the machine level here...) /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com