should i learn it first ?

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:57:42 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>
>I agree with much of what you say, especially the "consider skipping
>C++ and just learn C part", but _what_ pragmatic point of view is it
>that has one learning Perl, Java, or C++ when one uses Python already?
>Not dissing those languages, but when would you really need them?

I can think of several tasks for which C++ is better than Python, 
e.g. writing operating systems, network stacks, windowing systems, 
run-time interpreters, crypto algorithms, etc.

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