From: ego AT juno DOT com
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:48:45 PST
Subject: Re: MS Windows Development with djgpp?
Message-ID: <19970217.114846.14190.0.ego@juno.com>
References: <33086421 DOT 754F AT nation-net DOT com>


On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:58:57 +0000 Paul Walsh <paul AT nation-net DOT com>
writes:
>My C is good , but I'm just learning C++.
>
>I just got djgpp. Can it be used for developing MS Windows apps. Which 
>I 
>guess means, are there any PD Windows libraries?
>
>If not, what's the best/easiest way to learn to build small C++ 
>Windows 
>apps. Is it Visual C++, or is there a TurboC++ with Windows support?  
>I 
>don't know Visual Basic - would it be worth learning?
>
>thanks very muchly,
>
>Paul Walsh
>
   If you want to write small windows programs, then Visual Basic is the
easiest way to go. Basic describes itself by its name, the language is
basic. That makes if really easy to write good-sized windows programs,
but when you start writing stuff like MS Word, then you should migrate
to MSVC.