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From: "Jeroen Vandezande" <Jeroen DOT Vandezande AT tvd DOT be>
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Subject: Re: C or C++?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:31:28 +0100
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Thanks!,

The TP programs contain no OO, but I am reading a few book about learning OO
and, while looking at my old TP code I found that I could brake up the
program in some nice classes, so maybe I will go for C++.




"Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message
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> Jeroen Vandezande <Jeroen DOT Vandezande AT tvd DOT be> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
>
> > I am learning C and will soon convert at my work my old Turbo Pascal
> > Progs to C/C++ but what should I use C or C++?
>
> I'd make that decision on a per-program basis. If the Pascal program
> is in traditional Turbo Pascal (version 5.0 or below, IIRC), it will
> have no OO in it.  In that case, C is the better choice because it
> more closely reflects the type of programming language TurboPascal
> was, back then.  It's also a smaller language, so it should be easier
> to learn.
>
> If, OTOH, your program was made with later version of Turbo Pascal, it
> may already be using Objects (certainly will if you were using the
> Turbo Vision user interface library).  In that case, you'll be a lot
> better off translating it into C++.
>
>
>
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.