Yes, I think it would have been better if I had started with C or something closer to C than the Basic dialects that were my first exposure to programming.
There's an elegence in Turbo Pascal (Delphi stlye) that has its own sort of symetry in it, but maybe C , perhaps obviously C or C++, are more grunty when you need to deal with individual grains of sand instead of larger predefined building blocks. In some senses I know that I still do not make the fullest use of the OOP side of Delphi, when I first started with it, I was still thinking in Basic terms. Paul ============== Well, different strokes for different folks I guess. I like the flexibility of C++, even if it does mean I can quite easily hang myself with my own code. I figure that if I /do/ manage to hang myself, I've got no one to blame but myself. It's my code after all. Conversely, I found Pascal to be too restrictive. I'd already had a firm grounding in C by that time, so I admit to a firm bias. At the end of the day it's a matter of personal preference. -- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" Paul A Norman wrote: > Now I can remember early on when I was considering programming, why C / > C++looked less appealing than Turbo-Pascal! _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
