What Are Arrays?

	Chapter 6 - Working with Data
	Visual C++ 6: The Complete Reference
	Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray, III

Copyright 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies

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	Chapter 6: Working With Data

	Overview

	Here is a true statement: “You will never truly be a C/C++ programmer until  you stop thinking in some other language and translating into C/C++!” You  may have formally learned either COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, or PL/I, and then with brute force taught yourself one or more of the other languages listed, and been quite successful at it.

	The same approach will not work with C and C++. The reason for this is that these new state-of-the-art languages have unique features, constructs, and ways of doing things that have no equivalent in the older, high-level languages. If you attempt to do a mental translation, you will end up not taking advantage of all that C and C++ have to offer. Even worse, in the presence of a truly experienced C/C++ programmer, you will look like an obvious novice. Technically and philosophically correct C/C++ source code design has many nuances that quickly expose fraudulent claims of expertise!

	Fully appreciating all that C and C++ have to offer takes time and practice. In this chapter, you begin your exploration of their underlying structures. The great stability of these languages begins with the standard C and C++ data types and the modifiers and operators that can be used with them.

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