Re: What after C++
On May 30, 9:09 pm, c...@mailvault.com wrote:
On May 29, 1:33 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 28, 12:50 pm, ytrem...@nyx.nyx.net (Yannick Tremblay) wrote:
In article
<3875e41a-a7b5-4b48-8f1b-2cde71f0f...@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Nezhate <mazouz.nezh...@gmail.com> wrote:
After learning C++, I must learn gtk mm, libxml, eclipse, TCP/IP .
Well, none of these are programming languages.
Yes, but like a language, they are (almost) all tools. I'd say
that there are some more basic things which are important as
well: software design, algorithms, software engineering, etc..
Maybe threading or parsing. Or data base technology (SQL,
anyone? But we're back more or less to the language level).
Generally speaking, some knowledge of application considerations
will be necessary as well. (TCP/IP may be part of this---if
you're doing any networking, you should have at least a basic
understanding of how the network works.)
With regards to tools, there are two very essential ones that I
don't see mentionned there: a good editor and some sort of
scripting language.
Anymore, if a script is pushing 8 to 10 lines, it gets turned
into a C++ program.
Not necessarily.
A few years ago B. Stroustrup said something like - lots of
PERL usually equals unmaintainable.
I can agree with that, but Perl isn't the only scripting
language available. I make extensive use of AWK, but also, a
lot of what I use scripts for involves things that are fairly
complex to do in C++: I don't have a library function which will
do an rsh, for example. (A lot of my work currently involved
validating our migration to Linux. Running the old code on
Sparc under Solaris, the new on a PC under Linux, and comparing
the results. And I use Bourne shell and the usual Unix tools
for that---no need for any special C++ code.)
That jives with my experience and if a script shows signs of
growing, I nip it in the bud before it turns into a mess. IMO
an editor is more important than a scripting language.
Given that you need the editor to write the scripts:-).
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