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- From: Rob Stewart <stew@datalytics.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C\C++ versus Visual Basic
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:28:02 -0400
- Organization: Datalytics, Inc
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- Erol Kochman wrote:
- >
- > I would like to learn either C/C++ or Visual Basic for career development.
- > Several programmers have told me that Visual Basic is more practical for
- > developing Windows multimedia apps, however, most of the job listings I see
- > on the Internet require C/C++. Is it feasible to learn both languages?
-
- VB is growing in popularity, but I see more jobs for C++ than
- for VB. Perhaps that balance will change someday.
-
- You can learn more than one language regardless of the
- languages. The problems are when you can't mentally
- compartmentalize the differing capabilities. For example,
- Smalltalk and C++ share some common OOP characteristics, but
- only Smalltalk offers garbage collection (unless you use an
- add-on tool for C++). Thus, with one, you must carefully track
- your memory allocation, and with the other, you ignore them
- altogether.
-
- Likewise, VB has a different approach to writing a program
- because of its forms approach, and the language, while much
- improved over original BASIC, can still teach you some bad
- habits. If you can maintain different mental programming models
- and styles, you can use both tools. Each will likely color the
- code you write in the other, but whether that is bad depends on
- you and the results (long and short term).
-
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- Robert Stewart | My opinions are usually my own.
- Datalytics, Inc. | stew@datalytics.com
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