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Old Oct 31st, 2005, 8:08 PM   #40
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I cannot lend any philosophical insight to this discussion, except to note that in college/university, I learned procedural C++ first, the idea being that we should learn the nuts and bolts before moving on to OOP (the second term), and finally the STL (the third term). By the third term, I was learning C (and getting used to using stdio.h versus iostream, among other things). Assembly language came much later, and circuit logic last of all...everything in chronological reverse, in fact!
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