[ale] Language Jihad!

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Challange taken if you're willing to add "to acomplish the same tasks". Note 
that C++ is a superset of C. Therefore, the learning curve to do task A in C, 
by definition, cannot be higher than the learning curve of doing task A in 
C++. However, C++ generally has simpler, more powerful mechanisms to 
acomplish task A which are actually easier to learn than in plain old C. Take 
the printf/scanf vs. iostreams for example. Iostreams is far more intuitive 
and safer than printf. Compare char* C strings to C++ strings. There's really 
no comparison at all. I can get a novice doing useful work that doesn't crash 
much faster with C++ than with C. If you're going to argue that learning and 
mastering the language is more difficult that's like saying that learning 
calculus is more difficult than addition and subtraction. You'd be right but 
what's the point? You're learning something more.

	regards & later,

		Ben Scherrey

On Monday 16 July 2001 05:10 pm, Wandered Inn wrote:
> I would challenge anyone to disagree that the learning curve for C++ is
> much larger than the learning curve for C.
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