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- From: marte@htu.tu-graz.ac.at (Stefan Marte)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C++ vs "Hot Tech"
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 15:37:09 GMT
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- In article <4gt834$k51@kernighan.cs.umass.edu>,
- ramanath@freya.cs.umass.edu says...
- >
- >Folks,
- > I wondered if any of you are using C++ instead of some of the much
- >hyped new technology products like VB, delphi, java etc because
- >you want the code to be current and maintainable over 10 years or more.
- i don't think that much code survives that time, except inside big
- corporations (anyone at IBM listening?). and that is not a language
- dependent problem IMHO.
- >That is, I wondered if the long-term viability of C++ is the main reason
- >why people want to use C++ (say Visual C++) instead of the quicker tools
- >like Delphi. I am comparing C++ & Delphi because both have roughly the
- >same capabilities for building the guts of a large system. Delphi is
- >much easier for GUI though.
- It's simply that i prefer the language. C++ offers some direct advantages
- when developing large projects. Templates that is, certain variations when
- inheriting classes. I like RTTI and exceptions and that's all missing from
- Delphi, therefore making it a poor choice for large projects at least for
- me of course. VB for larger chunks of code is of course totally out of the
- question.
- I value VB and esp. Delphi for making it easy to do quick nice looking
- utilities and "proof of concept" style of programs. and they're good to
- experiment with interfaces.
-
- no flames intended.
-
- cu
- STM96
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