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Jul 1, 2014 at 16:14 comment added Joe Ballard @Patrick I see your point, but I didn't intend it that way. Like C, Latin is older, but not less advanced.
Jul 1, 2014 at 15:17 comment added rlms I would definitely not recommend learning C++ and C# from K&R, furthermore, I would advise against most people learning C as a first programming language. C is quite a hard language - it is much closer to the machine than most modern languages. Instead, I'd recommend learning something like Haskell if you have a strong maths background, and something like Python otherwise. I'd only recommend C if you are an electrical engineer or something. Programming skills are easy to transfer between langauges - I think it would be better to learn to program in an easy language first.
Jul 1, 2014 at 11:56 comment added Theodoros Chatzigiannakis These are quite different languages. C++ is inspired by C and C# is inspired by C++ and Java, but they are by no means the same language, not by a long (or "long int", in C) shot.
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:49 comment added Sam Your confusion seem to be caused by the similar names. C, C++ and C# are different languages, with C# having nothing in common with C. There is no such thing like "C languages". And Visual Studio is a development environment, which is a fancy name for a complex code editor. It is used to write programs in many unrelated languages - but many people associate it with C#.
Jul 1, 2014 at 9:26 answer added John Nicholas timeline score: -2
Jul 1, 2014 at 4:08 answer added Keith timeline score: 5
Jul 1, 2014 at 3:48 comment added Patrick Collins @JoeBallard I think that suggests that C is "less advanced," which isn't true -- a better comparison might be trying to learn Italian from a French textbook. Both Romance languages, but not informative for "Romance languages in general."
Jul 1, 2014 at 2:00 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/483792290067271680
Jul 1, 2014 at 0:10 comment added Joe Ballard C is not C++ is not C#. C# is actually much closer to Java than either C or C++. Trying to learn C# from K&R would be analogous to trying to learn modern Italian from a textbook on Latin.
Jun 30, 2014 at 23:03 answer added Eric King timeline score: 35
Jun 30, 2014 at 22:56 answer added Adam Zuckerman timeline score: 0
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Jun 30, 2014 at 22:34 comment added andy256 All these other languages came after C. K&R do not "expect" you to do use anything else - their book is for learning C.
Jun 30, 2014 at 22:29 comment added Bryan Chen I have no idea why learning C have anything to do with C++ and C#... one at a time please. Sometimes it is not possible to directly translate something in one language to another language (or it will be very very bad to do so)
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