Blog of Roy Chan

There is sth I wrote about C/C++ in my 1st Personal Homepage:

C is a programming language designed by Dennies Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to re-implement Unix.

I first know C on 1988 in a computer magazine and scan its structure and basic syntax later for a book borrowed for Regional Urban Council Library. I was attracted by its flexibility, speed and power. And it became my main research target until I found C++.

Undoubtly, C is really diffcult to be learned. It need you to know much about how the computer work and many technical stuff. Fortunately, I have a touch on Apple IIe 6502’s Assmely Language before I met C and have a basic knowledage about how the computer system work particularly the OS). Therefore, I suffer fewer problem during learning and familier with it very fast.

However, never ask me how to intergate C with Assmely Language, I never put much time on the assmely language of Intel 80×86 and the internal detail of MS-DOS. (lazy! )

C++, in fact, I thought that it is only an complier’s name of C (Like Borland’s Turbo C) when I find saw its’ name. But I soon realized that it is another programing language when I saw some syntax like:

cout < < "Hello World!n";

. The first thing of C++ attracted me was that it is a better C. (with const, overload and inline function) And I had bought the Chinese version of Bjarne Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language First Edition, the only bible of C++ at that time, in 1989 when I have no chance to have a C++ compiler. (Crazy? )

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