Initial thoughts on using C++

scredit2 is being written in C++ for Windows. Its structure will closely follow that of the original SCREDIT, which was written in 8080 and 8086 assembly language.

My first thought was to write scredit2 in Java or C#, in order to make it more portable. (And also to make it more of a learning experience for me.) In fact, I started on such a project. But the magnitude of the project (SCREDIT was over 35,000 lines of code) convinced me to take the easy way out on this initial cut. Making the leap from very low-level code (no operating system!) all the way to a high-level, pointerless environment was rather daunting.

Maybe if/when I get scredit2 working, I'll consider expanding my horizons by rewriting it for some other platform.

By the way, work on scredit2 began on 25 December 2005.