> In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn't learn what C++ is a

> In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn't learn what C++ is actually good (and bad) for. A couple of things: - A good programmer won't just write C++ in the style of Basic. - A good programmer wouldn't just use C++ to accomplish a task, there must be a legitimate reason, performance, etc. I myself have done exactly this, I just wrote a Ruby C-extension to make my program faster and I definitely didn't write it in the style of Ruby.