RE: [Dev-C++] C#

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:11 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] C#
> 
> 
> C++ is definitely a strong choice for programming students. 
> The two main
> reasons I've seen professors offer on its behalf are that it's a
> language that the students will actually find useful "in the 
> real world"
> and that students who gain a solid foundation in C++ seem to be more
> capable of handling a wide variety of challenges later in their course
> of study.
> 
> Since we've been talking about .NET during this thread as 
> well, I think
> it's interesting to point out that out of all the components 
> of the new
> M$ Visual Studio .NET, C++ is the only language you can use 
> within that
> system to compile programs that will run on computers that do not have
> .NET installed. This places a serious limitation on C#, VB, 
> and all the
> other components. (I get the impression they didn't think many C++
> developers would buy it with the .NET limitation.)

According to IDC Developer's report for 2001 C++ is the dominant general
purpose programming language with about 2.6 million developers
worldwide. Second was VB with about (if i recall correctly) 1.4 million
developers, and then were other languages like Java etc. They know that
C++ is the most popular.

After all they claim that Windows are written with their Visual C++.


Mainly they advertise C# much because i think they want to lure Java
developers and if possible why not VB developers. C# can be used by C++
coders for normal applications and probably be learned by them in 1-2
days. I have seen this happening with me learning advanced Pascal in 2
days  after learning C (The  {$i+}, {$i-} etc stuff). But i hate Pascal.
:)


After learning single and multiple inheritance in C++ how difficult it
can be to learn using single inheritance only that is being used by C#?
Another stupid thing i recall from C# is the use of goto inside a switch
statement.


It was something like:

switch(x)
{
 case 1:
            x=2;
            goto 3;
  case 3:
           y=4;
   
  case 5: 
            z=6;

  default: // something

}


As i said something *like* that.


So if you want to do the same job for some range of values you have to
use gotos!

e.g. in C++ you would do:

switch(x)
{
  case 1:
  case 2:
   case 3:
          cout<<"Get lost loser!\n";
          break;
// ...
}


in C# you have to do sonething like:

switch(x)
{
  case 1: goto case 3;
  case 2: goto case 3;
  case 3: something_java_like.writeconsole_something("Get lost
loser!\n");
// ...
}


Ioannis

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