Re: Java starting point

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, no problem here dude...:)  None of us has a monopoly on brains or
ways to skin the cat...:)

Don in DC..



On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terrell Deppe wrote:

> Don wrote:
> > 
> > Actually guys, the idea of starting with C then going to Java came from
> > non-other than John Sears at the NEIBM Conference this past spring.  I
> > usually figure that he knows what he's talking about...:)
> 
> Sorry, but credentials or not, I must profess my sternest disapproval.  
> 
> I've made a living writing C/C++ code for over 10 years now, and Java for just
> over three.  I also teach courses on these languages.  C and C++, though very
> powerful and useful, clutters the Java learning curve with unnecessary 
>artifacts
> (pointers, memory allocation/deallocation, templates, multiple inheritance, 
>sep.
> header/source, scope issues, etc).  Dare I say that this is similar to having 
>to
> learn to use punch cards before learning to use a keyboard?  DOS before
> Windows?  Horse and buggy before a car?  Index finger before middle finger? 
> 8^o  <DOH!> (sorry, I was on a roll there :-)
> 
> C has no concept of objects.  C++ is just plain overwhelming (the Wasa in
> Stroustrup's words).  Java is clean, simple and very straight forward.  Learn
> what you need to learn with fewer distractions, and become productive as 
>quickly
> as possible.
> 
> Personally, I tell any one interested in learning C++, to learn Java first.  I
> tell anyone interested in learning C, to learn russian roulette first.
> 
> -T
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Don in DC...
> > 
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