Re: Who gets higher salary a Java Programmer or a C++ Programmer?

From:

"Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:25:07 -0800

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"Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPeAdM@nnowslpianmk.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:43:35 -0800, Arne Vajh??j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Peter Duniho wrote:

C++ is a somewhat lower-level language, while at the same time offers
in some ways much more complex behaviors than Java. Because of that,
I'd recommend learning Java first, just because it's likely to be
somewhat easier.

It is much easier to learn Java than C++ as first language.

"much" vs "somewhat"...same difference. I agree with either statement.

But it is also much easier to go C++ -> Java than Java -> C++.

I'm not sure of that. I've seen a lot of people get frustrated and
tripped up by differences between the languages when they try to move from
C++ to Java.

[...]

I remember one time when a Java programmer thought the following code
snippet was perfectly fine and 100% correct C++:

void foo() {
object* o = new object();
o->do_something();
}

I said, "your code has a memory leak within the `foo' procedure.".

He responded with, "what's a memory leak?".

;^/