Re: Visual C++ Book

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 1 Apr 2007 07:20:40 -0700
Message-ID:
<51FEE0BE-5452-4F1E-9048-604F8AC5AA74@microsoft.com>
I think what makes C# successful:

1. Microsoft really pushes it as being "more cool".
2. They get all of the VS functionality for .NET
3. Microsoft using the excuse that C++ is "too difficult" to do some of the
functionality that C# has so naturally people think C++ is "more difficult"
4. C# gets the "new stuff" a release before C++, at least, which is usually
over a year. Thus C# gets momentum.

What makes C++ successful:

1. C# can't do native
2. .NET still not a speed demon so not suitable for all applications
3. Lots of people were already using MFC/C++

Tom
"MrAsm" <mrasm@usa.com> wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:05:29 GMT, "David Ching"
<dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote:

OTOH, I am reading Advanced C# by Trey Nash which tells of best practices,
and there is a TON of stuff to learn regarding IDisposable, threading,
exception handling, etc. before one can claim to be proficient in C#.


I believe that claiming to be proficient in C# and doing *advanced*
stuff in C# is absolutely not trivial, and requires studying and
coding.

C# is not VisualBasic6++ ;-)

MrAsm

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