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: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,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: 1996/07/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169269236 references: <01bb73e3.1c6a0060$6bf467ce@dave.iceslimited.com> <1996Jul20.124025.122789@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tran said "Besides, if you can master C/C++, and JAVA, it will take you 5 min. to learn Pascal. Actually, if one has a solid foundation in programming techniques and a solid understanding of one or two languages, one can aquire a working knowledge of any language in no time." Evenm allowing for a reasonable amount of rhetorical exaggeration, this is false. First of all, there is no language C/C++, they are two quite separate languages, and it definitely is NOT the case that if you have learned one language that you can learn another in five minutes. Pretty quickly sure, but not five minutes, for example, the notion of non-deterministic semantics for "and" in Pascal will be quite unfamiliar to a C (or for that matter C++ programmer), and there are always enough fine points like this to make it more than a trivial matter to become a knowledgable programmer in a new language.