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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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Carlos says

"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."

Well I would say Carlos gives good advice (don't let anyone guide you wrong)
and you can start by not letting Carlos guide you wrong.

First, the business world uses many languages -- even today far more programs
are written in COBOL than in C and C++ combined by a very large margin. It is
true that a segment of the technical engineering and software devlopment
market uses C and C++ heavily today, but who knows what they may be using
tomorrow. Don't concentrate on learning languages, concentrate on learning
how to program.