On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd say learn C only if you are interested in systems programming. There just 
> is
> no way to do systems programming and /not/ know C -- but that's about the only
> thing C would be useful for these days.
>
> Since you know python, you won't learn anything new from C++ and will only end
> up wondering why C++ programmers do that to themselves.
>
> If you want to improve programming chops, learn lisp or any other functional
> programming language.

+1

And if you want to explore the programming languages of your younger
days, but with a twist, then there is always multithreaded COBOL ;)

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Siddhesh Poyarekar
http://siddhesh.in
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