If you are familiar with oop, there is nothing to stop you adopting an oo approach to your C programming. The use of pointers to functions and structures make it relatively simple to adopt an oo style to your programming.
Guy Steven. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 20 September 2002 9:14 p.m. > To: linux user group > 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 > > >
