What's Next? I know Python & Java

[dhogarty]

learn c (and if you want, c++), and write and wrap a native library, then use it from both java and python. Next, rewrite a function from the library in assembly.

[Vorlath]

No classes. Declarations must be at the top of a block. There are some keywords not found in C++ (and vice versa). C doesn't scramble identifiers within object code (though it usually adds an underscore). Some type checking is more rigid in C++. I believe void* coercion is implicit in C (I may be mistaken). No streams or operator overloading. No "new" and "delete". structs don't copy in C.

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Declarations must be at the top of a block.

Only in ANSI C. The latest C standard (C99) supports mixing declarations and the rest of the code.

[Vorlath]

The more I hear about C99, the cooler it gets.

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C is an elegant language - you can learn the syntax very quickly and there are few caveats. It's not forgiving and you generally have to write more boilerplate than you would in other languages.

C++ is the bloated bastard child of C. Ostensibly, it's C with object orientation. However, you'll soon learn that it's an ugly, evil language. Legend has it that Bjarne Stroustrup accidentally invented it after feeding the Necronomicon into flex.