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Josh Lawrence wrote:
> Hi list!

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> Sparing you a lot of useless back story here, but for fun a for

> personal amusement (NOT for serious work), I'd like to start learning

> a programming language.  If I'm gonna learn one, I might as well learn

> something that gets a lot of use in the open-source world.  So which

> one to choose?  C or C++?

Why are you limiting yourself to just those two? Do you have a

specific application where bare metal speed is important?  If

speed is not the main factor, pick Python or Ruby or Ocaml or

Haskell. Anything but those two.
If speed is a factor then you probably need C or C++. I've been

programming in both for 20 odd years. I like C for its simplicity

and small feature set. Even though I work professionally as a

programmer and the majority of my work related coding in C++ I

find C++ a pain in the neck. The language is too big, too

complicated, has too many potential traps and when working with

others, its too difficult to agree on a common subset to use.
Just my 5 cents worth.
Erik

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