I have 3 years of experience with R and have an interest in becoming a better programmer so that I might someday be able to contribute packages. Other than R, my only experience was taking Lisp from Daniel Friedman in the 1970's. I would like to learn either C or C++ for several reasons:
To gain a better concept of object oriented programming so that I can begin to use S4 methods in R. To perhaps speed up some things I do repeatedly in R To be able to contribute a package someday. I have been doing some reading and from what I can tell R is more compatible with C, but C++ has much greater capabilities for OO programming. I have just started reading The C++ Programming Language: Special Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup <http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ATH=Bjarne+Stro ustrup&z=y> , he recommends first learning C++ and then then C if necessary, but as a developer of C++, he is probably biased. I would greatly appreciate the advice of the R developers and package contributors on this subject. "C" or "C++"? Thanks, Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD Official Business Address: Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine PR M116 Institute of Psychiatric Research 791 Union Drive Indianapolis, IN 46202 Preferred Mailing Address: 15032 Hunter Court Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
