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- From: normanb@halcyon.com (Norm Bryar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: a student need professional advice
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:24:55 GMT
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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- The important thing is, of course, to think logically and
- analytically. When you understand things like the program stack, good
- algorithms, etc., then the framework you use can change at any time
- and you'll still be a valuable developer. Frameworks don't take that
- long to learn, but judgement does.
-
- Visual Basic and possibly Delphi are what a lot of shops use to build
- their front-ends. Some companies have like 8-to-1 VB to C++
- developers: the C++ guys write a few OCXs/VBXs, the VB guys do all the
- UI for all the versions and internationalizations of the company's
- products. I think VB guys lack both the prestige and the pay the C++
- developer commands, but probably don't put in the hours the C++
- developer does, either.
-
- With VB, you'll throw together an app in a few days that would have
- taken a C++ developer a few weeks to do. On the other hand, that
- cool, WWW browser component, MPEG player, SQL server, or even the VBA
- scriptor you used all came from the C/C++ end of the shop.
-
- The high-end, writing performance applications, real-time or robust
- applications, or re-usable components for other's applications, that's
- C/C++. That said, where do you want to contribute, how specialized
- do you want to get, and how many over-time hours are you willing to
- put in to keep your godhood?
-
- As to which C++ framework. As I said, I don't think it's as important
- an issue as you might think. WIndows NT sales have finally equalled
- new UNIX installs, I beleive. Meanwhile, the PC market is
- predominantly Windows. So Unix/X-Windows is a niche market (does that
- attract you or scare you?). OWL, and I could be wrong, is not
- licensed to as many compiler vendors as MFC (Microsoft, Semantec,
- etc.), but some highly visible apps have been written with Borland
- (Quicken, for example). As I recall, there are tools to port MFC apps
- to the Mac relatively painlessly, is that true of OWL too?
-
- My two cents.
-
- --Norm "professional" Bryar
-
-
- smart guy <103021.1736@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
-
- >Dear professional,
-
- >What do you think will be the language of the future ??
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- >Should i do VC++/MFC or Borland/OWL or UNIX/C++ or visual basic.
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- >I am trying to decide which road to take.
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- >professional advice only please
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