> Since 80s to late 90s many Indian/foreign(US etc) have been teaching > programming in C/C++.When I talked to 2 ex-professors in India,they observed > that the rigor when students go through using c/++ is higher than > java/python.For.e.g.manipulation of linked list,hash table. >
Can you define 'rigor'? If you mean, number of hours spent, I agree with you but that's not a very good metric. IMO better programming is not just understaning the layers of abstraction > but understanding some intracacies,what goes below the hood. Yes and this is served better by actually studying the intricacies rather than language implementation details. Worrying about things like memory allocation/deallocation, corrupt pointers etc. are fine if that's what you want to do but if you're trying to implement a complex data structure and spend your time hunting for a bad pointer, it's a waste of time. -- ~noufal
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