About programing, a general question

[John Haxby]

On 17 December 2010 10:21, Parshwa Murdia <b330bkn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> C is a fairly small language and C++ is a fairly large one.  There is
>> a significant number of people who believe that C++ is too large.
>> However, many of the C++ features are useful.  Apart from that, it's
>> all just opinion.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>
>
> Yes opinions but if we compare the same with Python, would it really be a
> good option for a beginner?
>
>
>
Neither C not C++ can be called beginners programming languages.  It's not
the size of C, it's the hidden complexity.  And problem with C++ is the size
_and_ the complexity and knowing which of the zillion "features" to avoid
and why.

jch
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