Subj : Re: Java vs. C++
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : doug
Date : Sat May 28 2005 06:44 pm


"Giancarlo Niccolai" <searchforme@ingoogle.com> wrote in message 
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> doug wrote:
>
>> a) is like learning C - you'll be ready.  b) is like learning Java.  I
>> haven't figured out where C++ would go yet, but at the moment I imagine
>> using a bulldozer and the army from a small third-world country in order
>> to open a door.
>>
>
> You are fun as noone here, doug!
> Let me add. I use only C++ nowdays, but I recommend starting from C (and
> possibly avoiding Java). If you want to be a programmer you GOTTA know
> what's happening inside. C is what happening inside. C is a well-dressed
> assembly.

I like that.  I'll be using that myself from now on, if you don't mind!
I'll add: "Desipte the 'well-dressed' description, she can be a right slut 
too, if you want her to be.  She'll do *anything* if you give her the right 
instructions."

>
> Then, when you know what's happening inside you can do what you want. I
> don't say "learn to develop complex apps in C", but "learn to program in C
> and then to build complex apps in anything you wish".
>
> Gian.

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