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it's a great candidate. It was my first "real" languages (i.e. the first language, that is not php/js)
you have a text file. then call the compiler on it, and then you have a exe file, that you can run. It does exactly what it is supposed to do without thinking about the browser, the webserver, the JVM, or some other weirdness.
I get, that doing "good cpp" is difficult. And using all the weird languages features is difficult. But as long as you use strings, ints, ifs, fors, you should be fine. Just don't use generics, templates, new (keep everything on the stack), multi-inheritance, complex libraries, and it's a nice beginner language.
Maybe it's C that's a good first language, though I would admit that the basic ouputting of values to stdout is more intutive in C++.
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std::cout << "hello world"bullshit is in no way intuitive. You're using the bit-shift operator to output stuff to the console? WTF? Why 2 colons? What is cout? And then these guys go on to complain about JS being weird...No, C is where it's at:
printf("hello world");is just a function call, like all the other things you do in C.C is no beginner heaven either,
printfis its own can of "why can this function have any number of arguments and why does the compiler have to complain about the formatting every 25 milliseconds" worms