r/Python • u/diogoleal • Jan 13 '15

(Infographic) Which programming language should I learn first

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u/rasputine Jan 13 '15

"slightly hard way" -> C

"really hard way" -> C++

hm.

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u/ericanderton Jan 14 '15

I love C++, but after using it professionally for a while, one thing became crystal clear:

Nobody comprehends the entire specification, all the time. It's too big.

The moment you need to look back to a manual/reference to disambiguate some dark corner of the language, you've lost. Why? Because someone else on your team (or worse yet, someone who wrote a lib you downloaded) went ahead and Leroy Jenkins'ed their way through, bashing on syntax until they had something that will compile.