Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:46:45 08/11/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 17:25:14, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> That might be the reason why I'm mentally mutilated, as I first learnt BASIC >>for the Amstrad (some centuries ago). > >I first learned BASIC too (actually QBASIC). And when I moved to C, my first >programs were full of "goto". It took me some time to abandon such unhealthy >BASIC habits. > >Nowadays Visual Basic is chosen for simplicity. But if my 13 years old sister >could learn C with rather ease, then everyone can. The problem with C/C++ is >that they don't provide an easy way for creating GUI (unlike Java, C#, Visual >Basic, etc). That is the only advantage of Visual Basic over C for beginners. I think most all languages have some advantages and disadvantages relative to others. That's why good programmers usually know at least 4-5 different languages. Perhaps one can even say that to be a good programmer you _need_ to know 4-5 languages. :) The real art is to be versatile and decide which language to use when. -S.
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