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- From: vlad@gramercy.ios.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C++ vs "Hot Tech"
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 18:07:37 GMT
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- Larry Baker <leb@sdt.com> wrote:
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- >Kumaresan Ramanathan wrote:
- >> 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.
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- >You've asked an interesting question, and I'll put in my $2.00 worth.
- >(used to be $0.02, but inflation has caught up with me).
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- >Why I use C++ over Delphi or VB.
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- >- I know C++, and the knowledge is portable to other environments,
- > e.g. UNIX. Hence, as a C++ programmer, I can transfer to say,
- > programming from MS Windows to OS/2 to UNIX to NT and still retain
- > most of my language knowledge.
- Programming on those platforms is not only C++, is it?
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- With the rest I agree.
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