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Subject: Re: Why pascal is not good

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:00:02 08/01/03

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On July 31, 2003 at 15:55:14, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

which company hires you if you know QT?

And which companies hire you if you know MFC?

I can guess...

Note that QT is a very poor cross platform C++ library. Only the default stuff
works...

>On July 31, 2003 at 09:44:02, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
><snip>
>>>When I learned to swim, my parents didn't just throw me in the pool and say,
>>>okay, start swimming... I would have drowned. You have to take a gradual
>>>approach to learning. The initial classes could be taught in Java, and then,
>>>once a good base is established, other languages could be taught/used. Would you
>>>rather learn GUI programming in Java or MFC?
>>>
>>>Matt
>>
>>QT for linux, of course.  Quite an excellent toolkit.
>
>absolutely - even for w32. Very stringent. If i compare the signal/slot concept
>with mfc's "typesave" Message Map macros...
>I currently switch from MSXMLDom to QDom classes, suddenly it becomes readable.
>
>
>>And teaching beginners
>>Java is pure sillyness.  The classes will always focus on things like
>>polymorphism and oh, isn't it great we can do *this* complicated language
>>feature.
>
>And don't derive cat and dog from animal ;-)
>It depends, you can teach procedural things first, algorithms and data
>structures. Control flow etc. Why not Pascal or Delphi?
>
>
>>IMHO, everyone should learn assembly first and C second.  After that,
>>its your choice, but at least you understand how your machine works.  Of course,
>>this is the view of a hardware guy <shrug>.
>
>I found pure machine language best "didactical" way, entered with some binary or
>hex and command keys. Single stepping through some 8080 code, inspecting
>registers, ip and others.
>
>
>>
>>anthony
>>
>>P.S. my favorite language is ML, but Zappa is in a mixture of C, C++, and
>>assembly.
>
>never heard about ML, can you give me a glue?
>
>Cheers,
>Gerd



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