Hurray, my first C-application

I made my very first little program in C.
I used the world famous cp-method (copy-paste) and it worked.
Now I can visit the C/C++ forum aswell.

I must admit, couse I'm a Java programmer, the syntax was not new to me (most people do it the other way around, I heard). But comparing it to Java, I now understand why people call C/C++ dangerous. I made a little tiny program, with an error and it almost f*cked up windows. I could never do that, not in a million years in Java even if I did it on purpose.
What are you oppinions, should I continue on this dangerous path or should I stick to my safe Java-world?

continue with c then move to c++. you won't regret it.

Actually I was thinking of getting the C++ part asap and using all the Object-oriented features. I'm not to confortable with code that exists outside of a class.

Is there some compelling reason not to completely ignore the C-only aspects of C/C++?

I don't think so. Anything you can do w/ C you can do with C++, though there are people that prefer to code some things in C for minor performance gains or something like that. Unless you plan on becomming very involved in C/C++ app development, I would say just learning C++ would be fine. (It worked for me )

how did it fvck up your computer?

I simply don't know. I made a "hello-world"-program with some extensions using cin and cout. It worked like it should work. Then I copied my little application to another directory. I started it there and instead of the one dos-screen with "hello world". Twenty to thirty dos-screens popped op, clogging my pc, screen etc.

After that my dos-command prompt isn't what it used to be.

The real problem (to me) is that I haven't been able to reproduce the same kind of error.

cin and cout are c++ features...

you're ahead of schedule!

they are ?

Cool i'm a C++ dude without even knowing it.

err...what does C use then ?

umm print, printf?

printf()

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/printf.3.html

among others. not very much fun. a good rule of thumb is that if it appears to be a powerful and useful function, it's probably not part of c

lol

cout<<"Hello World";

is a bit more compact than

System.out.println("Hello World");

System.out.println ??

now yr into java!

better update that resume

Lol, no

I started with Java. That's why this C/C++ is all bit, how shall i put it, clumbersome? Awkward? Non-Object Oriented? But also quite interesting because of all the posibilities to screw up, without the compiler warning you for it.