Op Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:02:45 -0400, schreef Dan Upton: > Side rant: I think Java's just fine, as long as it's taught properly. > I'd done a little bit of C and C++ programming when I was in high > school, trying to teach myself from a book, but I never really got > pointers or objects. Going back to it after Java, it made so much more > sense, even though people will tell you "Java doesn't make you learn > about pointers."
I learned about pointers while learning Pascal (and later embedded assembler) using Borland's tools. Later I learned C (and even later C++), and I've always been wondering why those languages were making simple things so complicated... -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list