Re: Visual C++ Book

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:21:57 GMT
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"MrAsm" <mrasm@usa.com> wrote in message
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On 31 Mar 2007 10:09:32 -0700, "Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Its one or two clicks to create a simple C# Winform app.


This is true.


It's also true of C++/CLI Winforms apps... of course I wasn't talking about
generating skeleton of a program!

I do agree. And there are other simplifications of C# over C++: from
the unified dot-notation (just "." and no more :: or -> or . ...)


This actually was what prevented me from writing code very well in C#. It
doesn't make sense to use '.' for all purposes. It looks cleaner, but you
lose meaning when you ram 3 meanings into 1 symbol. And not clearly
defining what is a pointer and what isn't looks real strange. But now that
I know that C# is obfuscating these things, I can mentally translate and it
will make sense, and I can code in C# now. Ha, I like that: C#, the
obfuscating language.

 to
automatic memory management, to properties, to built-in unified
Unicode strings (no more TEXT()/_T(), L"...", WCHAR *, CHAR*, LPCTSTR,
wchar, BSTR, CString, CString, CStringW, CSuperString :), no more
memory leaks, etc.


These are the same advantages C++/CLI enjoys.

-- David

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