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On Saturday 19 January 2002 7:18 pm, you wrote:
David Johnson wrote:I suppose REALLY I'd like to learn Java, PHP or Perl but I must be realistic!Java is cool, can't really comment on PHP or Perl in depth.
I've used C++, Java, Perl and PHP - mostly PHP recently. Whether Java is cool or not is debatable - probably the worst decision ever was to promote the Java applet for animated graphics web pages - and the number of applications that actually use platform-independent Java is limited. Nokia are typical of those developers who shout loud about Java programmed toolkits etc but then admit in the small print that the app cannot run on any Java VM, only the Windows JavaVM. So what was the point of writing it in Java??!! C++ would have had the same platform dependence but been MUCH faster. Personally, I've yet to find a useful app to write in Java. Ideas for (SMALL) projects might be considered. (!!) Perl and PHP can't be compared with C++/Java/Pascal etc, but by using modules, Perl can do more varied tasks than PHP. Conversely, PHP is somewhat easier to secure because there are certain things it cannot do.
Learning Java would be a good introduction to C++, although you might decide that Java is enough. The big problem with learning computer languages is the libraries, whether C, C++, or Java.
True. I'm stuck with TWindow from my Borland days and getting used to C++ on Linux/KDE is a slow process. (One not helped by the recent upgrades using downloaded distros that didn't include a src CD!)
You have to learn your libraries or object hierarchies to become truely productive in these languages, although once you've seen a selection of these in one language you can guess pretty well what is likely to exist in other languages of the same type.
And then come a cropper for assuming that a function uses x number of parameters without reading the doc. Done that.
I've seen otherwise quite "good" programmers implement their own linked links in C++ through ignorance of the STL - arghhhhhhhh
Please explain Simon - is STL akin to the API in Windoze speak? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.