Python -> Java -> D ?

[David Finlayson]

Thanks for the candid thoughts.

I periodically brush off my intro to C book and give a few chapters a whirl, but I have never mastered the language. Maybe it is about time.

David 

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> "Mike Parker" <aldacron71 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:f0h40u$2q1b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >
> > I also think that learning to work with manual memory management and how 
> > to avoid all of the associated pitfalls (buffer overruns, uninitialized 
> > variables, etc...) is a great education. It's good to have the big picture 
> > on why modern languages have so many safety nets built into the core.
> 
> Exactly.. if nothing else, learning C will give you an appreciation of the 
> simplicity and expressiveness that things like garbage collection lend to D. 
> 
>