Thus spoke Cameron Laird (on 2006-06-25 13:08): > I'll gratuitously add that, even though I'm personally fond of > C++, I think teaching it as is done in colleges and high schools > (!) amounts to child abuse. It's wildly inappropriate.
C++ programming requires you to massively invest your thinking first into the setup of your build environment (can only be beaten by Java here). This is where the real abuse starts. Plain C++-baby-style (with some structs and cin/cout) is just fun, despite the required 'variable prototyping' (which is not that bad for a beginner). Regards Mirco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
