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- From: judgemi@ix.netcom.com(Michael Judge )
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 06:25:47 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4e9s5b$lvr@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>
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- In <4e9oji$me5@news-2.csn.net> charles stoyer <cstoyer@interpex.com>
- writes:
- >
- >BASIC stands for "Beginners All-purpose ? Interpretive Code"
- >and that scares the living hell out of me. I have been a
- >FORTRAN programmer for about 25 years, and have had Visual C++
- >(with Fortran Power Station) for 2 weeks. C++ is a real
- >language. I would go that route (well, I am going that route).
- >The Wizard does most of the coding for you. Debug tools are
- >great.
- >
- >Depends on what you want to do: "speed costs, son, how fast do
- >you wanna go?"
- >
-
- Also remember, C++ makes good programers great, but makes poor
- programmers hell spawn. Don't think object orientation cant be misused.
-
-