Re: C Programming

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:29:38AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Comparing to Pascal is hardly fair or even useful, since it's barely used
anymore (outside of Borland's Delphi). A better comparison would be Python,
which is designed to be both a learning language *and* practical.
Is it considered better these days to learn an object-oriented
language first?

Maybe. That was certainly the Official Wisdom for several years. However, I
think many people do just fine learning modern procedural programming first.



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