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 Message-ID: <34fb5a93.945867@news.compusmart.ab.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: remote369.compusmart.ab.ca Lines: 40 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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. -- Demandred, Lord of the 32-bit Registers Check out my game at: http://www.nnetis.ca/~matt/dogfight.html