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- From: rob@brasaap.iaehv.nl (Rob J. Nauta)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: C++ with Zapp vs. Delphi
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 22:40:19 +0100
- Organization: Fidelio Software
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- M.Abdollahi@bham.ac.uk (M.Abdollahi) writes:
-
- >mobergru@oslonett.no (Rune Moberg) wrote:
-
- ->>Pascal is simpler, but C++ is more powerful/flexible.
- ->>Is this a fair comparison?
-
- ->I fail to see how "simpler" means less "powerful/flexible"?
-
- ->How do you measure it? The time it takes to develop a fairly large
- ->application?
-
- Not really. When those languages were defined, the simple terminal
- was the user interface. They both didn't need much more than file I/O,
- treating the terminal device as a file.
- Today, the target OS is much more powerful. When developing for
- MS-Windows, the support for the GUI is much more important than the
- language used regarding the developement speed.
-
- >For some people if something is simpler to use means it is less
- >powerful ! But DELPHI is just if not more powerful than C++.
-
- That's a meaningless statement. Compare C++ to Object Pascal, or
- Delphi to Visual C++ and all its tools and classes.
-
- >The professional programmers do not like the idea that non-professional
- >programmers can use DELPHI and produce even better programs than
- >professional programmers who use C++ and this is the main reason that
- >sometimes they critisize DELPHI. I bet if DELPHI was difficult to use
- >some professional programmers would have loved and admired it !
-
- Well, many 'professional' programmers here have little technical
- background. Sure, they know the Windows API, but I've seen some examples
- here... Some code, using the most exotic undocumented features, with
- lots of global variables, memory leaking, off-by-one errors in walking
- an array etc.
-
- I may not know too many Windows specifics, but at least I can make
- a finite state machine, linked lists, sort a linked list by just
- moving the pointers. Many programmers would just allocate a huge
- array, or sort by moving the objects itself around.
-
- Rob
-
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