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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/18
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Date: 1996-07-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Patrick said

"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."

Note the phrase "C++ programmer"

the second word is by FAR the most important. Concentrate on learning the
basic principles of computer science and software engineering. The language
you learn at first is not so important, and I would say Pascal is probably
a far better choice than C for experimentation with algorithms. You can
easily learn whatever is the language-du-jour when it comes to getting
a job later on.