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Re: C++ (was kernel hackers)
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Date: 
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:20:01 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote:

Luis Villa wrote:

I had
been planning on using legOS, but the transition to C might be messy for
some, and so any opportunity to use C++ instead would be great.

Isn't writing in C easier than C++? Assuming they know the basics of the
C language, I would have thought using functions is a simpler concept
than methods. I'm just curious, rather than authoritive :)

If you already know a language, naturally it will be easier to write in that
language than one which you are not yet familiar.

However...

C programming is not any harder or easier than C++.  C is "simpler" than C++
-- whether this makes it harder or easier is *HIGHLY* subjective.

Mark



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(...) That is the main issue- I'd prefer to focus on teaching the robotics stuff than teaching C, especially since the students that will be taking the course will be quite proficient in C++ and basically not at all in C. Luis ###...### "One World, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Isn't writing in C easier than C++? Assuming they know the basics of the C language, I would have thought using functions is a simpler concept than methods. I'm just curious, rather than authoritive :) Richard (25 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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