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- From: Barry Warburton <ge68@dial.pipex.com>
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- Subject: Re: Need advice choosing programming language
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 18:34:19 GMT
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- Rob Stewart <stew@datalytics.com> wrote:
- >Jim McFarland <jgm6@orkand.em.cdc.gov> wrote:
- >>Dan wrote:
- >>>Help me if you can.
- >>>
- >>>I need advice on which computer programming language to choose. I've narrowed
- >>>down the possibilities to VisualBasic and C++.
- >
- >If you're choosing between these two in isolation, then you
- >need to decide what sort of apps you want when you're
- >finished. VB makes it easy to build a fully functional
- >application, but the app is slower and it is difficult to
- >reuse code. C++ makes it harder to build a fully functional
- >app, but it is (often) orders of magnitude faster and you can
- >reuse code more easily.
- >
- The reuse of C++ is very overestimated. Without proper analysis and
- design and on reuse focussed programming, the reuse of C++ is very
- small. In C++ most reuse is limited by C features, C++ oddities
- and improper design.
- Besides VB might get a lot faster if MS uses the newest compiler
- technologies. I am not sure about reuse in VB though, but rewriting
- in VB might take less time than reusing in C++.
- Besides the choice depends very much on the actual application
- environment.
-
- Seeing both alternatives, I would therefore recommend Delphi.
- Delhi will have a windows 95 version soon, to which you can port your
- current programs.
-
-
- >>>
- >>>PURPOSE
- >>> I want to learn to progam JAVA applets for inclusion in Worldwide Web pages.
- >>>
- >>
- >>Then why don't you just learn Java??
- >>
- >
- >Also, since Java is a simplified form of C++, C++ would be
- >useful for a transition to or from Java.
- >
- Java is more like objective-C without pointers, using a C++ kind of
- syntax.
- Java is really a lot easier to learn, but there is not yet full support.
- Actually anything is easier to learn than C++. (I tried all of them).
-
-
- >--
- >Robert Stewart | My opinions are usually my own.
- >Datalytics, Inc.
- >(513)226-7700
- >stew@datalytics.com
- >
- >
-
- If you choose for C++ anyway, do not underestimate the Analysis and
- Design state, because it is often too easy to program not OO in C++.
- Which will leave you with a C kind of program.
- Unless you actually want to program in that language.
-
-
-
- Dirk Wessels
- Programmer/Developer C++/Smalltalk/Delphi
- Eleco Technology
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