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: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: andrewg@microlise.co.uk (Andrew Gierth) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168914724 x-nntp-posting-host: microl.demon.co.uk references: <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <4slt4p$9jj@ns.broadvision.com> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada organization: Microlise Engineering Ltd. 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: [This thread should never have been injected into comp.unix.programmer. Would further contributors *please* take note. Followups set.] billy@cast.msstate.edu wrote: >In article , dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >|> 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 >Amen! Any good programmer can learn any new langauge that coems along. >The danger new programmers often fall into is that of learning to be a >"foo programmer", where foo is the language du jour. >The technology changes to fast to be locked into one mode. C++ is >meaga-way-cool today, but remember, C was the end-all a while back, and >COBOL before that. >Don't strive to be a C++ Programmer or a Java Programmer -- become a >Good Programmer.