(Caveat: I don't know much C++) On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 07:36, Tim Wright wrote: > Additionally, C's memory management is pretty bloody awful to use. True. But you learn a lot about memory management in the process, and that is not a bad goal in itself.
> Yes, C is the basis for almost every other language. And the core for all the libraries, which can make programing in C easier than some of the higher-level languages because you have access to a lot of core functionality. Once or twice I have found myself writing a little C program that is called by Python to perform a core system task. In addition most of the system documentation is written for C. > If you want to write a GUI app, then learn something > easier. Perhaps Python/GTK, or Tcl/Tk, or Java/Swing would be good > choices. Java is never a solution ;-P -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
