Man, am I glad medicine sure doesn't work that way. But hey, *smile*, I'm sure doctors would love to not learn anything new, *grin*. This is my personal advice, so take it or leave it. Every single language specific thing you learn is worth nothing more than the fleeting bits used to represent the ascii characters explaining it to you. It is nothing more than syntactic garbage taking up space in your head.. this has been true for the past 60 to 70 years, and it will be true for the next 70 years. That's why you should concentrate on learning concepts. Who cares if you can write a binary tree in C++, if you can't also write it, after only glancing at a reference manual for 10 minutes, in 25 other languages. languages come and go, but concepts hardly change. So, you can either focus and obsess on the 2011 specific stuff, or the stuff that has been true ever since Charles Babbage made his difference engine over a century ago. And for you ladies out there, yes I'm aware that Ada Lovelace actually did all the hard work, *grin*. Take care, Sina Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:48 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bjarne Stroustrup talks about c++ and upcoming features in the language Well, I'm glad the language has held still over the years. I'm stil a novice in this language and I'm glad I don't have to be so worried about my book or tutorial containing obselete code as I would be for Java. You can still take a c++ book written in 2004 or 2005 or something like that and use it to learn with. Unless I'm mistaken, you can't do this with c# or Java. I tried looking at Java a few months back and kept finding all these books that seemed to have a bunch of things you had to change with subsequent versions of Java. So, I for one am glad too much change hasn't come too quickly to it. Alex M On 3/9/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fine, seriously belated, delayed, and not as useful as it would have been 10 > years ago. > > Take car,e > Sina > > > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, > Tyler > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:39 PM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Bjarne Stroustrup talks about c++ and upcoming features in the > language > > But it wasn't. This is a long time in coming, but it doesn't make it > useless. > On 3/9/2011 3:41 PM, Sina Bahram wrote: >> Wow, how many decades has it been? >> >> Oh well, better later than never, or something, I'm sure. >> >> Sorry, this is kind of useless. >> >> This should have been done in 1999. >> >> Take care, >> Sina >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence >> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 5:17 PM >> To: programmingblind >> Subject: Bjarne Stroustrup talks about c++ and upcoming features in the >> language >> >> http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/C++0x%20-%20An%20Overview.html >> >> Fascinating video from the man himself. Interesting to hear his >> voice. For those who don't know, Bjarne Stroustrup is the man who >> invented c++. The language was originally called c with classes but >> then, he changed the name to c++ because in c, the ++ means >> incremental addition. >> >> Enjoy, >> >> Alex M >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> > > > -- > > Thanks, > Ty > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind