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C++ is among the worst first languages to learn. In terms of bad choices, it's right up there with VisualBasic. If you want to code close to metal, learn C first. Then carefully select a subset of C++ that works for you. ... Google uses a subset of C++. They don't use things like automatic ref counted pointers or multiple inheritance. You can basically think of Google's C++ subset as C plus a bit of sugar:The ability to add methods to structsBasic single inheritance.Collection and string classesScope based resource management.In general, this makes the code cleaner without adding much complexity. ... http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-choose-C-over-C-for-most-of-its-codehttp://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml If you want to be productive and need a language that is versatile enough to span prototyping, administration, modeling, and data munging, learn Python first. You'll have a reasonable object model along with functional constructs that will help you understand a wider variety of languages in the future (eg ML, Haskell, Clojure).
C++ is among the worst first languages to learn. In terms of bad choices, it's right up there with VisualBasic. If you want to code close to metal, learn C first. Then carefully select a subset of C++ that works for you.
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Google uses a subset of C++. They don't use things like automatic ref counted pointers or multiple inheritance.
You can basically think of Google's C++ subset as C plus a bit of sugar:
In general, this makes the code cleaner without adding much complexity.
http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-choose-C-over-C-for-most-of-its-code
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml
If you want to be productive and need a language that is versatile enough to span prototyping, administration, modeling, and data munging, learn Python first. You'll have a reasonable object model along with functional constructs that will help you understand a wider variety of languages in the future (eg ML, Haskell, Clojure).
