From: "Randy H" 

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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