[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[Jean-Pierre Desrochers]

> C is still my favorite language.
Same for me !

JP

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De : Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] De la part de Michael E Caloroso
Envoyé : 7 décembre 2020 11:29
À : Roman Sowa
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Objet : Re: [sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

I'm a BTEE graduate, one of my classes was structured programming.
Language was Pascal.  We were given an assignment to build a program that converted resistor color codes to actual value.  To my instructor's disbelief I designed a converter using three lines of code.  I simply made a string array with the color codes in order, and used the array index as the digit value & multiplier.  Thus the color code could be parsed and value computed in a single line.  Even without any formal programming education I already understood the concept of indirect array indexing and compound statements.

That intuition helped when I studied microprocessors and assembly language.

I have to say that assembly programming did make it easier to learn C.

C is still my favorite language.

MC

On 12/7/20, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>
> W dniu 2020-12-05 o 22:11, Brian Willoughby pisze:
>> You definitely won't be wasting your time by learning C.
>>
>
> That one sentence brought my attention.
> It took me a whole semester in school to understand one line of 
> simplest code in C, but after that it was a path with no return. I 
> only had background in Assembler and Pascal before. As a result my 
> master's thesis was rather complex Windows program written in C++ with 
> small addition of hardware. And I was not educated to be a programmer at all.
>
> What I mean to say is that learning C is like riding a bike, it may be 
> a bit tough at first, after you learn it you don't have to use it each 
> day to jump on it one day and just go ahead.
> Now C is my first choice when I need simple PC utilities, like file 
> format converters.
>
> Roman
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