Thank you all for your support!

I think I choose to start with c.
So which free PC windows 9x c compiler is the best?
Of course that's a matter of opinion but opinions is exactly what I would
like to hear.

portelli wrote:
>I mention c and not c++ because some of those nice features of c++ have
>gotten me into trouble.  It was easier to them do it in plain old c.  I
>think with c you get a better grasp on what is actually happening.  But
>that is just me.
>
>Johannes Hubert wrote:
>>
>> portelli wrote in message <37224A1B.9E54CA8A@pilot.msu.edu>...
>> >Start with c.  There are several free compilers out there.  For the PC
>> >there is djgpp, cygwin, and several others.
>>
>> I wouldn't recommend that actually. C is a difficult language to learn as
a
>> first language.
Do you mean C or C++ is a difficult first language? I'm a little confused.

>> If you really don't want to do anything object-oriented,
>> then I would recommend Pascal instead.
>>
>> But then again, why *not* an object-oriented langauge?
>>
>> It is only a myth that object-oriented languages are more difficult to
learn
>> than procedural ones (like C or Pascal). This mostly stems from the fact,
>> that most programmers began with BASIC, C or Pascal but very few with an
>> object-oriented language, and that for those oldtimers
"object-orientation"
>> still is some strange "newfangled" concept because it goes partly
contrary
>> to what they have learned before. For a newbie who never had contact with
>> programming before, the whole object-orientation can be very intuitive
and
>> easy to grasp, because there are no preconceptions about "how something
>> should be done" (in terms of programming) that are to be overcome.
<snip>
>> So long,
>> Johannes.

Thanks,

Rune S. Johansen
http://hjem.get2net.dk/rsj

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