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From: pathak@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Into which computer language should
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Date: 28 Jan 89 18:51:00 GMT
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I would suggest starting out with Turbo Pascal and then learn C.

The reason for this is simple.  Pascal is a language that protects you from
your own stupidity.  It has very strict type checking which is both a bane and
a boon.  Once you are comfortable with Pascal, graduate to C.

C is very popular because it is a very nice language to use.  It allows you to
do just about anything you want to the machine yet lets you do it at a higher 
level than Assembler.  The only problem with this is that with this power, 
comes the wonderful ability for you to hang yourself quite nicely.  


Heeren Pathak
s.cs.uiuc.edu
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu