Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what
by Meai on Saturday July 09, 2011 @12:51PM
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Hm, to me it is. If he knows C, he will know C++ too. Qt makes cross platform development trivial. Linux is a C stronghold. He knows the in&out of the Linux kernel, knows gdb and the gcc. He is making a C IDE, so why not program it in C with GTK+ if not Qt. Yes, all that stuff makes it hard to understand to be Windows-only.
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Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what
by gte910h on Saturday July 09, 2011 @01:34PM
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> If he knows C, he will know C++ too.
What?
The two languages are only barely related as used in industry. Tons of people use C every day who wouldn't think about touching C++.
C++ is rarely used compared to straight C in:
OSes
Micro-controllers
Libraries
And those same C people have rarely programmed in GUI environments as well.
I agree that C++ is horrible, but I was under the impression that everyone who knows C would have at least learned C++ before discarding it, making it possible to at least use C++ libraries.
Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what
by gte910h on Saturday July 09, 2011 @04:19PM
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Naw, tons of EE's know enough C to not have to do assembler, but don't get C++ at all. Lots of other people know C because they do extensions for their preferred language. Lastly people know enough C++ to know they don't know C++ well enough to release software in it.