Yeah, what Charles Mills said :-). He's a lot less lazy than me when it comes to writing stuff out.
C++ *is* a superset of C, and it does provide several useful enhancements (e.g. new/delete vs. malloc/free), but that's not what it was invented for. It was invented to allow object-oriented programming, and that is a whole new paradigm (game-changer as it were). And I agree that it is a great thing (and fun) to learn and do. But prepare for considerable mental effort to get there. btw, it seems to me that C++ has been extended much further since I did much work with it. Probably it's like C++++ now. I don't know much about C# (call it "see pound" to impress people*), but Java was invented (purportedly anyway) as a safer C++, and likewise, basically forces object-oriented programming. I get the feeling that C# was just microsoft's attempt to keep Java (Sun) from taking over too much mind-share. sas *I didn't say it would be a good impression ;-) On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Let me weigh in on these topics. I am a very experienced HLASM product > developer who switched his primary language to C++ about ten years ago. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
