[SlugLUG] Question on C

[Suraj N. Kurapati]

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Erich Blume wrote:
> Thank you for a lot of really great replies. I'll definitely consider
> learning C++ as I really /do/ need to learn an OO language besides java
> (it's the new BASIC - give me a break), but for now I'm going to tackle this
> in C.

I recommend learning Ruby, Python, Lisp, or Smalltalk instead. The
latter two will teach you more than C++ ever will. The first two
will teach you new things while being a bit more practical.

Shameless plug: Learn Ruby! http://ruby-lang.org ;-)

> But to Suraj's comment that optimization should be language independent, I'd
> generally agree, but the application I want to optimize has only one
> bottleneck, and that's input/output. I need a high-speed
> single-character-at-a-time input device, and I have it from the #perl people
> on freenode that PerlIO isn't capable of delivering that speed.

Understood. That's the correct way to go about it. :-)
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