Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/02/22:15:56
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 08:27:08 -0800, scorpio AT onlinemac DOT com (scorpio)
was heard to ramble:
>Hi
>I am just learning to program, got a big book, downloaded djgpp and went
>for it.
>
>So i really dont know to much about the Programming Business?
>
>I was wondering if i could get opinions on whether or not people think
>that C++ is worth learning.
Definitely. Almost everything worthwhile these days is being
developed in C++ (though not necessarily for the DOS platform). IMHO,
the rest of the worthwhile stuff is done in perl. =) Soon, I suspect
that we'll start seeing some cool Java apps, and Java is based heavily
on C++...
>I dont suppose it would hurt, but if your kid was going to get into
>programming, where would you try to steer him.
C++ first, then Java, then (if he's working on a UNIX platform) perl.
>If it depends on what a person wants to do, lets look at applications
>first then games.
Sure.
>If it depends on format, well i dont know enough about the formats, but
>windows seems to be winning the race.
Windows? Yeah, it's popular (unfortunately), but most windows
programming is AFAIK done in C++. Micro$oft's MFC package has pretty
much guaranteed that.
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