RE: Re[2]: [Dev-C++] [q] Does C++ promote bad programming?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

It is very, very tough to write a C or C++ program without any pointers.

Try writing a hello world program :-)

I was about to supply one in this mail, when I realized that I couldn't
even get past main() without adding a pointer to any command line
arguments...

/Per W

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

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> > Subject: Re[2]: [Dev-C++] [q] Does C++ promote bad programming?
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> > Hello Ioannis and all Dev-C++ users,
> >
> > Saturday, April 12, 2003, 4:07:54 PM, Ioannis wrote as follows:
> >
> > IV> So for example if you want to teach all the concepts of
> > Object Oriented
> > IV> programming, C++ is a perfect candidate.
> >
> > IMHO for such course better is Java - it has all benefits of OOP but
> > whithout pointers and with garbage collector and tables boundary
> > checking - which (for beginners) is very important... IMHO learning
> > C++ (as a faster language) should be done AFTER Java course...
>
>
> Java uses pointers although it is somewhat transparent to the user.
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> You are not forced to use pointers in C++. You use them if you want them.
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