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Article #28Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
From: Terje A. Bergesen
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:28
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:28
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Michael Judge wrote: > > In <4e9oji$me5@news-2.csn.net> charles stoyer <cstoyer@interpex.com> > writes: > > > >BASIC stands for "Beginners All-purpose ? Interpretive Code" > >and that scares the living hell out of me. I have been a > >FORTRAN programmer for about 25 years, and have had Visual C++ > >(with Fortran Power Station) for 2 weeks. C++ is a real > >language. I would go that route (well, I am going that route). > >The Wizard does most of the coding for you. Debug tools are > >great. > > > >Depends on what you want to do: "speed costs, son, how fast do > >you wanna go?" > > > > Also remember, C++ makes good programers great, but makes poor > programmers hell spawn. Don't think object orientation cant be misused. I think Bjarne Stroustrup once said something like (comparing C an dC++): "C++ makes it more difficult to shoot your selfe in the foot, but when you do, it takes your whole leg off." ---Terje
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!Norway.EU.net!usenet From: "Terje A. Bergesen" <terje@mail.inett.no> Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?" Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:28:01 +0100 Organization: Bergesen Data Message-ID: <3108C8D1.6624@mail.inett.no> References: <4e9g08$3dp@maureen.teleport.com> <4e9oji$me5@news-2.csn.net> <4e9s5b$lvr@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.75.36.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I)