From: "Randy H" 

Now make it going from COBOL to Java.

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>
> In the mid-80's I helped a lifelong COBOL programmer learn c.
>
> It was, ummmm..., challenging.   The thought processes are just not the
> same.
>
> /m
>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 09:40:14 -0600, "Randy H"

> wrote:
>
>>Try coming from COBOL.
>>
>>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 07:29:13 -0600, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm starting to think Ellen may be right though, perhaps I
should have
>>>>started with C and worked up to C++ just to get a bit more of the
>>>>history.
>>>
>>> I think you are on the right track starting with c++ first.  As a
>>> software
>>> manager, one of the most difficult transitions that I see in the people
>>> I
>>> mentor is the transition from a procedural language (c) to an
>>> object-oriented
>>> language (c++).  (*)
>>>
>>>
>>>  /m
>>>
>>>
>>> *) I'll leave it to tohers to dicuss whether c++ is a
"true" object
>>> oriented
>>> language, or whether you need to look at Objective C for that
>>> qualification.
>>>
>>
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