Re: Learning C and C++

[netnews!schonberg!dewar@nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

One interesting point (for the fellow who is falling off the good ship USS
Ada and will have to fend for himself among the C and C++ reefs) is that
a good background in Ada is excellent preparation for C programming. As is
so often the case in moving from one language to another, you can carry
good habits from one place to another. Often we scorn people who write
language X in the style of Y, but actually I think this is an excellent idea
when X=C and Y=Ada. In particular, the discipline of careful design of package
specs can carry right over to a very disciplined approach to the design,
coding and documentation of C headers.

This certainly won't solve all your problems, and when you jump overboard
I strongly recommend grabbing onto the nearest debugger, you'll find yourself
living in it much more than you did in Ada!