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So does learning C, or C++, help you learn the other?
Yes -- C++ is mostly a superset of C, so learning either helps you learn the other.
And what would be the advantage of knowing the same language as what the extension APIs are in?
The idea is that you first write your program in a comfortable, high-level, slow language (e.g. R or Perl) and then, if it's too slow, reimplement parts of it in a fast language, calling those parts from the high-level language.

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Re^6: perl's long term place in bioinformatics?
by tritan (Sexton) on Jan 13, 2010 at 06:07 UTC
    Mmm, okay. Makes sense. Thank you very much for your replies! They've been very helpful.