Agreed. C is essential for A and B (i.e. basics) -
after C programming starts making sense. This is prob.
because of it being lower-level hence closer to HW
and theoretical comp.sci. concepts. However, If I
remember correctly, the person who fielded the
question already knows C.
So, after reading Eric Raymonds article on Python, I
am really inspired to learn it myself. references
please. I'll allude to an experience of mine:
prob. used to the C procedural style, When I came up
against a truly functional language, I wound myself up
in knots. The language is SML (Standard
Meta-Language), a beautiful functional prog laguage
esp. for mathematicians (it seems to me), and we used
it for writing a compiler (As a course at IIT
actually).
Amitabh
--- Pankaj Kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: > C FULL STOP
> whatever you do. wherever you go. you might get
> around by using a little
> perl here a little python there but you cant be
> coding without working C
> knowledge.
>
> if you learn C the world starts making sense :)
> or rather nonsense
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:28:09PM +0530, supreet
> wrote:
> supreet> I would second that. First of all python is
> more newbie friendly and has
> supreet> a more comfortable syntax to read. I am not
>
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