C vs Java??????

[Bosstone]

I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
studies or try to learn Java?

[Tim Behrendsen]

Bosstone <boss...@ds.net> wrote in article
<32dbf6c...@news.ds.net>...

> I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
> studies or try to learn Java?

Learn C. Java is appropriate for small embedded projects, but is
not IMHO appropriate for large "real" applications. C will give
you a much better foundation for your further studies.

In any case, these things are rarely an either/or situation. Feel
free to learn Java, but C is a "meat and potatoes" language.

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[Steve Jones - JON]

"Tim Behrendsen" <t...@a-sis.com> writes:

>
> Bosstone <boss...@ds.net> wrote in article
> <32dbf6c...@news.ds.net>...
> > I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
> > studies or try to learn Java?
>
> Learn C. Java is appropriate for small embedded projects, but is
> not IMHO appropriate for large "real" applications. C will give
> you a much better foundation for your further studies.
>
> In any case, these things are rarely an either/or situation. Feel
> free to learn Java, but C is a "meat and potatoes" language.

Question : Is there a C -> JVM compiler around, I know there is an
Ada -> JVM and assume therefore that gcc will do this.. am I correct ?

Remember people Java is LANGUAGE while JVM is just another target PLATFORM
albeit a portable one.

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[Gabor Egressy]

Bosstone (boss...@ds.net) wrote:
: I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C

: studies or try to learn Java?

Don't restrict yourself to one language. I'd recommend learning C,
Java, C++, and Perl. All these languages have compilers/interpreters
for a variety of platforms.

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[Fritz W Feuerbacher]

Bosstone (boss...@ds.net) wrote:
: I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
: studies or try to learn Java?

Isn't Java just "C for a network communication" language?

FF

[Kaz Kylheku]

In article <5c2thm$f...@news.cc.ucf.edu>,

Hardly. Java and C have little in common except superficial syntactic
similarities.

[Craig Franck]

fwf2...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher) wrote:
>Bosstone (boss...@ds.net) wrote:
>: I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
>: studies or try to learn Java?
>
>Isn't Java just "C for a network communication" language?

A 2 cent answer is it is more like interpreted C++ for Web page
applications. Vist http://java.sun.com/ and click on "What is Java?"
to get the full story.

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Craig
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Manchester, NH
The less a man makes declarative statements, the
less he's apt to look foolish in retrospect.
-- Quentin Tarantino in "Four Rooms"

[Kok Fock Seng]

Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> In article <5c2thm$f...@news.cc.ucf.edu>,

> Fritz W Feuerbacher <fwf2...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
> >Bosstone (boss...@ds.net) wrote:
> >: I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
> >: studies or try to learn Java?
> >
> >Isn't Java just "C for a network communication" language?
>

> Hardly. Java and C have little in common except superficial syntactic
> similarities.

I suggest you go for C first. Then, you can pickup
Java faster.

[Kaz Kylheku]

In article <32E68A...@silicon.net.my>,
Kok Fock Seng <fs...@silicon.net.my> wrote:
>Kaz Kylheku wrote:

>> Hardly. Java and C have little in common except superficial syntactic
>> similarities.
>I suggest you go for C first. Then, you can pickup
>Java faster.

Not to mention that if you go to C first, you will _drop_ Java faster than
most people can pick it up. :)

[Albert K Lee]

In article <5bmbib$c...@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, Gabor Egressy wrote:
>Bosstone (boss...@ds.net) wrote:
>: I am somewhat new at C and was wondering if I should continue my C
>: studies or try to learn Java?
>

>Don't restrict yourself to one language. I'd recommend learning C,
>Java, C++, and Perl. All these languages have compilers/interpreters
>for a variety of platforms.

Listening to all these language recommendations might get you more lost
than you want to be. What's fundamental is for you to choose one
language, and stick with it and learn *programming fundamentals*. There
are conventions, constructs, styles, etc. that you should learn, not to
mention algorithms, data structures, and program design.

No matter what languages you learn, the *all* do the *same thing* ... they
are all ways of telling the computer what to do and how to do it, to
varying levels of abstract thought, in ways that human beings can
understand. It's important to really learn how to mangle with a computer
first than to learn 10 languages and argue that yours is the best.