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From: darwinl@alliance.uucp (Darwin Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Teaching C as first programming language
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.202533.17961@alliance.uucp>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:25:33 GMT
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In-Reply-To: djp@central.cis.upenn.edu's message of 12 Jun 91 17:30:20 GMT


As a student before, one thing I hate the most when I first learn C is
that the weak type checking "feature" it has. It is especially bad as
my first labguage is Pascal. So, if possible , get the ANSI C instead
of the other one (like the one available on BSD Unix 4.2{3}, or
whatever..}


I.E. get one with a stronger type checking feature. It would ease the
efforts a lot in leanring a new programming language like C. One
thing, you may be aware of it already, is that , C is not intended for
any educational purposes like Pascal's. So, it got a lot of stuff
there which is to allow programmer to get around things .

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