Josh Lawrence wrote: > Hi list! > > Sparing you a lot of useless back story here, but for fun a for > personal amusement (NOT for serious work), I'd like to start learning > a programming language. If I'm gonna learn one, I might as well learn > something that gets a lot of use in the open-source world. So which > one to choose? C or C++? Why are you limiting yourself to just those two? Do you have a specific application where bare metal speed is important? If speed is not the main factor, pick Python or Ruby or Ocaml or Haskell. Anything but those two. If speed is a factor then you probably need C or C++. I've been programming in both for 20 odd years. I like C for its simplicity and small feature set. Even though I work professionally as a programmer and the majority of my work related coding in C++ I find C++ a pain in the neck. The language is too big, too complicated, has too many potential traps and when working with others, its too difficult to agree on a common subset to use. Just my 5 cents worth. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
