Good point. Give me a few years to learn C, and the rest should be like a Sunday drive in the  country.

Hey redshirt!  I can more or less do "procedural" programming in C++, which I guess is the "C" part, without any Object Oriented stuff. Although, I know a little about basic structs and classes. It's probably going to be a while before I can do anything useful. I'll probably end up diverting to Fortran because I'll be doing a PhD next year in computational chemistry, and I believe that Fortan is the best language for scientific applications, or so I'm told...

It happens dude. The form topics only bob their heads above the watery surface of the great ocean of forum dynamism before they are gobbled up by the proverbial loch-ness monster of the maritime deeps. Sorry that didn't come out quite right. But suffice it to say you gotta be quick