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Re:Parody of an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creato... by TooMuchNick on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:24AM (#456097)
In college, where I majored in English, I thought I'd have an adventure and take a class in programming. They taught us C++. I never tried programming again.

Say I was foolish enough to try again on my own. Say I wanted to write my own version of Writeroom: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom

What language would I want to learn, and is there a good beginner's guide?

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Re:Parody of an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creato... by allenbrunson on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:28AM (#456103)
the appropriate language for any given situation is largely dependent on the environment you're writing for. writeroom is a macosx program, so it's overwhelmingly likely that it was written in objective-c. you can google up beginner's guides all day long.
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Re:Parody of an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creato... by bmj on Thursday January 29, 2009 @07:14AM (#456228)
Dark Room (http://they.misled.us/dark-room), the Windows version, is written in C#.
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Re:Parody of an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creato... by TooMuchNick on Thursday January 29, 2009 @01:15PM (#456813)
Sorry, I should have realized the OS would be very important. I want to try writing a couple of Mac apps.
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