[Sussex] if MS developed Gentoo ...

[Geoffrey Teale]

Gareth Ablett wrote:
> For quick applications I have always used Delphi/Kylix instead of VB but
> I guess its on the same par. Tbh I prefer c/c++ (even if I do have to
> use MFC at work).

Delphi was always in a different league to VB.  Object Pascal is a 
frustrating language but a far more capable one than VB (prior to .NET).

C and C++ are wonderful languages, I deeply enjoy them both, but it is 
fair to say that C++ is a vast and not suitable for the sort of people 
whose approach to programming is purely informed by Visual Basic 
experience.  Matters of style and approach are more important in C++ 
than in any other language I've worked in simply because there is so 
much scope for acts of pure evil.

If you have to work with MFC (lord knows we've all been there) just 
remind yourself that this is not "high church C++" but the C++ of 
deviant trolls - best bit of C++ advice I'd  give anyone is this: join 
the ACCU (http://www.accu.org) and get involved in the code critque 
program and read the two journals of the magazine - that way lies 
virtuousness.

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Geoff Teale
Free Software Foundation <tealeg at member.fsf.org>