Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/30/20:30:58
- 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
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