"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote:
[snip] I didn't really mean that to sound like it did. Maybe I've been scarred for life by trying to tutor second-year computer science students in C, especially with linked lists, and strings that take up one more byte than strlen() returns. > I learned C first. I don't see why Kent shouldn't learn it first. And yes > I did look at the URL I learnt VIC 20 BASIC first. It didn't *twitch* do me any *twitch* harm. I now know a few dozen languages and think that Python is one of the easiest to use; however, it's essential to know C to do any "real" programming on Unix. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader." - Bruce Martin in RISKS