From: Weiqi Gao Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: is djgpp object-oriented? Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:25:16 -0500 Organization: CRL Network Services Lines: 44 Message-ID: <37A2426C.EE21D1EF@a.crl.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: a116007.stl1.as.crl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com - carlo - wrote: > > Don't attack me! You are safe with this crowd. > Is DJGPP Ansi-like. C++? Object-oriented? DJGPP features GNU C/C++/Objective-C. GNU C is ANSI. GNU C++ is mostly ANSI, some late fetures are not in there yet. C++ is a good language for object-oriented programming, although there are others that's easier to learn, and yet others easier to use, all at the expense of a little efficiency. > Is it commercially viable? Well, yes. It even has its own web site! All the traffic should generate some income? > Is it a good place to learn C or C++? If you've got a DOS machine (or Windows 3.1, 95/98/NT) already set up, DJGPP is very easy to setup: use the Zip picker to choose what to download, donload, and unzip, setup one environment variable and you are good to go! > Should one learn C or C++ first? That depends: The K&R C book is only 272 pages while the Bjarne Stroustrap C++ book is 910 pages. If you want fast and lean and mean, go with C, and if you want slow and comprehensive and more power, go with C++. Both are extremely useful: for example, UNIX is written in C, and ... (I was going to be fair and impartial here, but I couldn't think of anything popular that's written in C++). > (And, tangential - what is Objective-C?) Another object-oriented extension of C that's not as popular as C++. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com