~Rick wrote: > I'm an old C programmer, trying to learn/convert to C++. I initially > was using malloc/free but decided I should be using new/delete > instead. I'm probably doing the whole C++ thing all wrong. Maybe I > should start from scratch. > > ~Rick
Old C programmers have difficulties moving entirely to C++. I still prefer printf() over 'cout'. I initially learned C++ and then went back to C for several more years adapting object-oriented methodologies to my C code...until I ran into some restriction of C that would have resulted in void pointers and multiple casts and I just decided it was simpler to just use C++. Since I already had object-oriented programming under my belt and had previously learned C++, the transition was fairly painless. An old C++ book I obtained from way back before C++ was standardized (and Turbo C++ was still considered "hot"/"current" in the geek world) said one thing that I still remember about learning C first, "You will have to unlearn many things from C before you can learn object-oriented programming, and, in particular, C++." Or something like that. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
