which progrraming language to learn first

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:05:13PM -0500, Dougie wrote:
> I would recommend C or C++ for a couple of reasons.  There are several good
> free compilers available for C on both windows and linux.  Alot of linux stuff
> is written in C so there should be plenty of source code to look at and play
> with. 

I ... I might recommend against looking at Linux's C source
code. A lot of it is quite ugly. Lots of it is pretty, don't
get me wrong -- but I think we might want to point new
programmers at the elegant stuff, just to avoid implanting
the wrong ideas too early on. :-)

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