C++ definately, but learning Java might be more useful, at the end of the day it's just another language and when you know one OOP language you can switch pretty easily.
jeremyb. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2002/09/20 Fri PM 09:14:01 GMT+12:00 > To: linux user group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: C or C++? > > Hi, > > I though I would find out the CLUGs opinion of which is better C or C++. I am >thinking of learning a "lower" level programming language. I know many "higher" level >languages such as C#, VB and PHP and some others but am trying to decide which >language I should learn next. > > I know the concepts of both languages and have in the past started learning them >both and I know the basic syntax and have done minimal MFC programming in Visual C++ >(VERY minimal). I am fimilar with OOP programming... and that C++ is an OOP language >while C is not, but... > > "Many people who don't program very well in C think of C as an arbitrary language >out of many. This point should be made at once: C is the fundamental basis of all >computing in the world today. UNIX, Microsoft Windows, office suites, web browsers >and device drivers are all written in C. Ninety-nine percent of your time spent at a >computer is probably spent using an application written in C. About 70% of all ``open >source'' software is written in C, and the remaining 30% written in languages whose >compilers or interpreters are written in C. [C++ is also quite popular. It is, >however, not as fundamental to computing, although it is more suitable in many >situations.] " - Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition > > Which should I learn as I will be doing Linux, not windows, programming? > > > Thanks > > > >
