[SlugLUG] Question on C

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ignacio Solis (isolis at igso.net):

> Java is the new basic (sadly), C++ is the old complex. If you want to
> learn more OO try python or ruby. Like Suraj said, learn Smalltalk if
> you want something cool/didactic (shameless plug for smalltalk being
> developed at PARC).

Good to see someone recommending something other than depressing
factory-programming languages.  I'd suggest, for breadth of
experience, Scheme as a good example of functional programming.  (Yeah,
Erlang/Haskell would be more-pure examples, but less well developed, and
even more obscure.  Besides, there's the excellent tutorial _The Little
Schemer_ to recommend Scheme.)

> If you have a hammer, problems look like nails. In this case you have multiple
> hammers, and problems still look like nails.

And all your hammers have inherited bugs.  ;->

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Cheers,
Rick Moen                      "vi is my shepherd; I shall not font."
rick at linuxmafia.com                               -- Psalm 0.1 beta