About programing, a general question

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Dec 18 07:47:13 UTC 2010


On 12/18/2010 07:45 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de>wrote:
>
> Exactly. "C" tends to expose many of the low-level details and the
>> concepts behind them (e.g. pointers, addresses, registers,
>> bit-operations, word-sizes, interfacing with other langu).
>>
>> That's why I prefer exposing newcomers to these concepts early in their,
>> e.g. by choosing "C". Also worth mentioning is them learning and
>> understanding the concept of "preprocessing", "compilation" and at least
>> some details of linkage, details which many interpreted languages hide
>> away from them.
>>
>> Ralf
>
>
>
> Ok, so C is better according to you.

Depends on how you mean this.

"C" is not the "best programming language", but it's a good choice as 
means to learn.

Ralf



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