Subj : Re: hi there re: Programming books in C,C++ ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 02:36 am

Chingy wrote:
> I am computer power user and my  hobby is to get all the knowledge I can
> possibbly  get  to learn something I am interested in..
> 
> I have obtained, CCNA,MCSE(win2000) from self study and now I wanna move
> onto programming, so which programming language I should learn as an
> absolute beginner.

It sounds as though you are doing this for fun, in which case you absolutely
do not want to learn C or C++. Basically, (intelligent) people use C and
C++ because they have to, not because they want to. ;-)

If you want to expand your mind then learn Clean, SML, OCaml and Haskell. I
like OCaml.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com

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