Roger Scudder wrote in a message to Darrell Salter:
 RS>  My opinion is that one must approach the study of another
 RS>  language with a open mind and with as little preconceived
 RS>  notions as possible (we're all human).  So the decision
 RS>  wether to learn C or C++ first should be based on which one  you
 RS> want/need to learn first.
Makes sense.
 RS>  My reasoning brings me to this: it is a good idea to gain some 
 RS> mastery of procedural programming idioms, ie; C, Pascal, COBOL, 
 RS> etc... before attempting to learning the more cerebral Object 
 RS> Oriented Programming idioms.
That is probably why I am going to have to learn C in school.  I have no 
formal education in any languages, but I tried to self-teach myself Pascal 
and was able to write some simple text based programs but got bogged down 
when it came to manipulating arrays, and records really threw me .  I then 
discovered Visual Basic.  It was very easy to use and results came quickly, 
although not having a background in Basic certainly limited the complexity of 
my programs. Now that I've started computer studies at university, I'm going 
to have to learn C if I want to major.  I already have a C++ compiler 
(Watcom) and was hoping to be able to use it for my studies.  From what 
you've said, it looks like that may not be possible. :(
Do I need to now purchase a seperate C compiler?
BTW, thanks kindly for your input.
Cheers,
      Darrell
      darrells@idirect.com
Yeah, I'm WARPed! 
... The most difficult thing to open is a closed mind.
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