barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (06/17/90)
Recently, a number of people have been discussing the merits of
various programming languages on the Amiga. I wanted to share with you
an experience I had recently.
I've been programming in C for many years, and I finally got around
to reading a book about C++. I will not discuss the merits of this language
versus others, since everybody has different opinions on this kind of topic,
I don't want to start a language war.
All I will say is this: if you use C, I suggest that you read
a book about C++. I found it a VERY mind-opening, enjoyable experience.
I am very enthusiastic to start using this language, since its approach
to programming mirrors the way that I think.
Commodore's Dave Haynie has been writing some of his software
(notably SetFont) in C++, and I have read his statements on how he likes the
language.
The book I read was "The Complete C++ Primer" by Keith Weiskamp and
Bryan Flamig. This particular book has a number of errors in it, but I
think the readability (very friendly) and the authors' approach make up for
this deficiency.
Why am I posting this to comp.sys.amiga? Because I think that
the Amiga programming environment, paricularly Intuition's menus, gadgets,
windows, etc., is very suitable for this language's object-oriented approach.
Read a book. That's all I'm saying. I think you'll find it
worthwhile.
Dan
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