From:	demandrd AT compusmart DOT ab DOT ca (Demandred)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: C++ in Death Throes?
Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 1998 01:21:26 GMT
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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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