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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
Yeah I'm planning on picking it up too. My question is this. I'm proficient with JAVA how much of a leap is it to go to C?
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I'm more of a C programmer myself. I regularly use C, C++, and PHP (mostly C++ though). I've also dabbled in JavaScript, Perl, Forth, and Java. I didn't like Java though. It's too object oriented for my tastes.
But back to your question. I didn't do much Java, I didn't get much farther than Hello World, but I think that they are very different. But, I've found that for programming things as simple as FIRST stuff, all languages are pretty much the same. ifs are ifs, fors are fors. Languages don't tend to separate much until you get into more complicated things.
As for a more quantitative answer: it seems that Java branched off from C in 1983 and is twice removed.
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