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: 1696ae,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid1696ae,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168979249 references: <4rs76l$aqd@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4sdlco$rtl@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <01bb74ac$b7aa7860$7b91f780@deangulo> <01bb7591$83087d60$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <4sord0$l0k@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: " Never, never, never try to start learning a language before you learn how to program. A good algorithm simply cannot be replaced, and learning how to write an alogrithm is in programming, not in learning a language. You can sit down and read a hundred books about how to use pointers and linked lists in c++, and you still won't know how to use them in a good manner, if at all." I am very familiar with the highly unusual approach Georgia Tech takes, but I find the above remark rubbish. You cannot express algorithms unless you use a language to express them in, and for my taste, a well chosen programming language is as good choice as anything.