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I just pity the poor person who learns C++. I pity myself for having learned it.
by bjwbell 12y ago
I just pity the poor person who learns C++. I pity myself for having learned it.
- danieldk 12y agoWhy? I think following a 3/4rd year university course on C++ was one of my best investments ever. Nearly every imperative language is a walk in the park after you know C++, and you can still write C++ for performance-intensive code (if necessary with expression templates et al.).
- TeMPOraL 12y agoTotally agree. Also, I'm very happy I learned C++ as my first language (after little bit of dabbling in QBasic, Pascal and VB in primary school). When you're learning programming for the first time, you have no reference points. You either learn it or don't. So I learned C++, not once thinking it's difficult or complicated, and it became my reference point, making other imperative programming languages trivial to learn.